Eastern Coral Snake , This snake belong to Elapidae family and highly poisonous. This snake is found only in the southeastern United States. An another snake, called the Scarlet Snake, is very similar to this snake but scarlet is not poisonous.
In biology this phenomenon is called mimicry. Eastern snakes have black, red and yellow stripes. Its poison is neurotoxic which attacks the central nervous system. This snake bite about 100 people every year in the United States.
This snake ranked 3rd most beautiful snake of the world.
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It looks poisonous, I hope never to see it
Beautiful, but I am not getting anywhere near it.
It is just found in south eastern america
I haven’t seen this snake before … I don’t want to meet you
Oh , I ,ll convey your message to this snake lol
Another beautiful snake. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah , Indeed this is the beautiful snake
there are rattlesnakes in the US which are more poisonous, but these are pretty deadly
Yeah , In US there are many breed of snakes and some are very poisons
coral snake, rattlers and pit vipers are the only ones I can think of. water moccasins
No matter how colorful the snake but I am still scared.
Haha, so true, same like me!
Snakes are scary but I have to agree this one is a beauty and love the colors.
Yes , i my self scared of snakes but there is no denial of its beauty
I hate it, so sorry.
You are free to hate or like ….
Haha, sure. and, will walk away.
But don’t go too far………….lol
It’s quite beautiful but it’s one of those animals I hate with a passion.
Yeah , every one stay away from these snakes, except few people I see in Discovery Channel
I quickly scrolled so that I could only see the text and not the photo. I freak out looking even at photos. (lol)
I wish I was your neighbor