Big Snake

[TrekDianna]

I just returned from Costa Rica tonight and reading through here while waiting for photos to upload...we actually went out a few times specifically to look for snakes. I saw three Fer de lance's at night and a boa and a green vine snake during the day.

[Owlie]

I'm not sure I'd tangle with a cottonmouth. You're probably not going to die from a bite but it would hurt like a *****.

I have spent way too much time over the past four months talking about snake venom. My thesis is on snake venom. (There are a few species referred to as fer-de-lance; one of them is really commonly studied.) Snakes are pretty cool, but I'm not sure I want to think about them ever again.

[lgibster]

Don't know if I could study snakes! My thesis was in cotton diseases, much safer!