Snakes.

Bill Baka wrote:
::: I say let Darwin take its course on the snake population.
:::
::: Ron
::
:: I don't think Darwin had cars and roads in mind.

Sure he did. Man made those. Creatures can lose out to man. Or not.

Besides that there
:: are plenty of rats and mice to be taken care of and they don't get
:: flat by trying to sun themselves on the road. We actually need the
:: snakes. Bill Baka

Snakes aren't in danger of going extinct, Bill.

David L. Johnson said:

Bob Burns said:

Quoted message said:

posing. I finally used the bike tire to nudge him off and he struck at
the tire about 5 times before giving up.

Snake bite?

Quoted message said:

I met a black bear last year on a local rail trail. I came around a
bend and there he was; I grabbed brakes and the squeak alerted him. Head
up, looked me right in the eye, and then ran off up the mountain. I
thought about turning and pedaling away, but bears can run at 35 mph and
I can't bike that fast except on a downhill.

But you don't have to outrun the bear, just the guy you're riding with.

Generally right, but I was riding alone.

--
-------------------------------------------------------
"Every day is Saturday when you're retired."

Bob Burns
Mill Hall PA
(email is spamtrap)

Roger Zoul said:

Bill Baka wrote:
::: I say let Darwin take its course on the snake population.
:::
::: Ron
::
:: I don't think Darwin had cars and roads in mind.

Sure he did. Man made those. Creatures can lose out to man. Or not.

Besides that there
:: are plenty of rats and mice to be taken care of and they don't get
:: flat by trying to sun themselves on the road. We actually need the
:: snakes. Bill Baka

Snakes aren't in danger of going extinct, Bill.

Darwin didn't plan on people extinctifying everythin on the planet.
Bill

Bill Baka wrote:
:: Roger Zoul wrote:
::: Bill Baka wrote:
:::::: I say let Darwin take its course on the snake population.
::::::
:::::: Ron
:::::
::::: I don't think Darwin had cars and roads in mind.
:::
::: Sure he did. Man made those. Creatures can lose out to man. Or
::: not.
:::
::: Besides that there
::::: are plenty of rats and mice to be taken care of and they don't get
::::: flat by trying to sun themselves on the road. We actually need the
::::: snakes. Bill Baka
:::
::: Snakes aren't in danger of going extinct, Bill.
:::
:::
:: Darwin didn't plan on people extinctifying everythin on the planet.

Sure he did. It's all about survival of the fittest. Man may wipe himself
out, but other creatures could indeed survive. In that case, man isn't the
winner of natural selection.

di said:

You saw a Bull Snake, or Gopher Snake for you Western People, harmless and
kills it's prey by constricting and swallows it whole, doubt if it could
swallow Bill. But, this thread is getting a lot of mileage. I would
much rather get bit by a Rattlesnake than a Brown Recluse Spider.

AMEN! I was bit by a Recluse while cutting some timber and, outside of the
immediate pain (which really did feel like two quick, hot needles poking me),
it created an open wound that lingered for about a year, then turned into a
psoriasis-like patch of scaley skin that lingered for another three years
until it faded and began looking fit. However, that bite was about twenty years
ago and I can still detect some twitching and damage to site now, so
don't screw with the spiders!

p.s. Yeah, yeah... Jim Stafford.

Roger Zoul said:

Bill Baka wrote:
:: Roger Zoul wrote:
::: Bill Baka wrote:
:::::: I say let Darwin take its course on the snake population.
::::::
:::::: Ron
:::::
::::: I don't think Darwin had cars and roads in mind.
:::
::: Sure he did. Man made those. Creatures can lose out to man. Or
::: not.
:::
::: Besides that there
::::: are plenty of rats and mice to be taken care of and they don't get
::::: flat by trying to sun themselves on the road. We actually need the
::::: snakes. Bill Baka
:::
::: Snakes aren't in danger of going extinct, Bill.
:::
:::
:: Darwin didn't plan on people extinctifying everythin on the planet.

Sure he did. It's all about survival of the fittest. Man may wipe himself
out, but other creatures could indeed survive. In that case, man isn't the
winner of natural selection.

So we won't need a meteor like the dinosuars? We can just do it to
ourselves?
Bill

Bill Baka wrote:
:: Roger Zoul wrote:
::: Bill Baka wrote:
::::: Roger Zoul wrote:
:::::: Bill Baka wrote:
::::::::: I say let Darwin take its course on the snake population.
:::::::::
::::::::: Ron
::::::::
:::::::: I don't think Darwin had cars and roads in mind.
::::::
:::::: Sure he did. Man made those. Creatures can lose out to man. Or
:::::: not.
::::::
:::::: Besides that there
:::::::: are plenty of rats and mice to be taken care of and they don't
:::::::: get flat by trying to sun themselves on the road. We actually
:::::::: need the snakes. Bill Baka
::::::
:::::: Snakes aren't in danger of going extinct, Bill.
::::::
::::::
::::: Darwin didn't plan on people extinctifying everythin on the
::::: planet.
:::
::: Sure he did. It's all about survival of the fittest. Man may wipe
::: himself out, but other creatures could indeed survive. In that
::: case, man isn't the winner of natural selection.
:::
:::
:::
:: So we won't need a meteor like the dinosuars? We can just do it to
:: ourselves?

Yes.

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Quoted message said:

This may sound totally off the wall but I almost got bit today trying to
do a good deed for a snake. As I was riding I noticed a snake on the road
and thought it was the usual road kill but noticed it was moving slightly.
I thought it may have been wounded and picked it up at the middle to get
it off the road and it suddenly came to life and wheeled around to bite
me, but a really fast drop and retract avoided that. It looked like a
rattler but had no rattles, although it was trying really hard to convince
me that it was, with a big display of hissing and posing. I finally used
the bike tire to nudge him off and he struck at the tire about 5 times
before giving up. At least when I came back he wasn't road kill. A little
further down I found another sunning on the edge of the road but when I
got close he just retreated into the brush. This one was also about 2 feet
long and had stripes so obviously not a rattler.
I wonder if trying to do a good deed for a snake is worth the trouble.
It just bugs me that so many get flattened on the street and snakes really
aren't that bad as they eat nuisance rodents.
I like snakes as curiosity items and have tried to catch real rattlers by
distracting them and grabbing them behind the head. I almost did it once
but my wife, who knows I am oblivious to danger like that, threw a rock at
it and scared it into striking and it almost got me, blowing the whole
trip and letting the snake get away. Why do I do this?

Adrenalin rush, plus I am non-allergic to any bites of any kind and had a
hospital with 5 minutes in the car (Mustang 5.0). I get out and do things.
Like I said 90 and a rest home is not for me so I have this inner
daredevil.

Does anybody else have nature interactions or just me.
I made some ducks unhappy last year by watching them up close and they
showed me what they thought of it by swimming across a drainage ditch.
When I came back they were by the road again and when they saw me swam
across again.
How unsocial.
Bill (nature boy) Baka

Good show Bill Baka! Now post something about spiders that will most likely
get a few hundred responses from the idiots, morons and imbeciles of RBM.
Hey, how about someone posting something about alligators too while we are
about it.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota