This video reminded me of my days at the Marine Corps base at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina! Copperheads are familiar, at least by name, to most North Carolinians.
Deriving its name from its coppery brown head, the copperhead also is known by such local names as “pilot,” “chunkhead,” “poplar leaf” and “highland moccasin.”
Whatever you call them, these snakes need to be treated with respect!
They are widely (and some say unjustly) feared and persecuted and huge numbers of copperheads are deliberately killed simply because they are venomous, but many nonvenomous snakes are mistaken for copperheads and killed.
The copperhead is the most common and widespread venomous snake in North Carolina. In many areas, including most of the larger urban regions, it is the only venomous snake. Many populations have been reduced, and some eliminated, by habitat destruction and individual persecution, but the adaptable copperhead remains common in many areas. It is not listed under any category of special protection
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