Talk:Eastern copperhead

message: It's really neat how this page has come together so quickly and well! :-)  -- Marj 01:50 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Yes: I love it when that happens. Trouble is .... now we need to do all the other species to match up with it. :( Tannin
I'm not sure about the validity of the differences between the subspecies in appearance. Snakes of any one species generally vary in color pattern. All the subspecies have the same markings and color patterns. --Surreal 11:56, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Page creation

message: :They're listed as endangered in IA and MA, and as a "species of concern" in NY and NJ. In the majority of their range they're lower concern though. -Dawson 00:20, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The three subspecies of copperhead that range into OK hold no particular conservation status there. -Dawson 17:48, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

text: This species doesn't have an overall Conservation Status -- at least not according to the IUCN (that's what that indicator in the taxobox is supposed to reflect). --Jwinius 10:18, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conservation status 

message: As with a lot of animals, the color can vary greatly. We have one in the creek below our condo in Charlotte NC that is definitely a Copperhead, but is rather brown in color. Its almost coppery, but seems to be adapted to this area. Using a zoom lens, we see it has the correct eyes.
I heard back in the 1980s something about Copperheads and Blacksnakes mating...and something about how the male/female parent snake determined whether the hybrid offspring are poisonous...Anybody know anything about that? 71.68.62.103 20:56, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Copperheads and black snakes mating? That sounds like folklore to me. On the contrary, according to Campbell & Lamar (2004), black snakes, specificly Coluber constrictor, are known to eat members of the genus Agkistrodon. Beyond that, I've often heard of interspecies hybrids, but never of an intergeneric hybrid... at least not with snakes. This would even be an interfamily hybrid. --Jwinius 01:08, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

text: I have never heard this specific version before, but similar stories have been circulating since circa the beginning of time. Usually about hybrids between rattlesnakes and various harmless snakes. No doubt many are started by people who see a black racer or a gopher snake rattling it's tail in the leaves and don't realize that's a normal defensive behavior in most snakes. Among other things, copperheads are live-bearers and blacksnakes (racers or rats) are egg-layers. Not much chance of that working. Lfishel 06:18, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

text: Southern Black Racers (Coluber constrictor priapus, especially juveniles) and Cottonmouths (Agkistrodon piscivorus) can easily be mistaken for one another at a distance (go see the photos), because of the similar dark body colors and the white marking around a juvenile black racer's mouth vs. the cottonmouth's name-giving white mouth-interior. That could be a short and easy step from imagining the two to be related... just as folk myth, not as science. – •Raven  .talk 06:57, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colors 

message: Am I the only one that thinks the photo at the top of the page (with the taxonomic info) should be a typical-looking copperhead and not one with a strange (though beautiful) pattern morph? This is the sort of resource non-snake people might use to try and identify a snake they saw in their yard. If the first photo they see doesn't look like it they will just move on and not see the gallery at the bottom. Lfishel 06:18, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Representative photos

message: I removed the link next to the Sig Sauer Copperhead reference because it just redirected to their homepage. Attys (talk) 20:59, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Presumably they expired the product page because that was a limited edition and no more items remained to be sold. I found an archived copy at archive.org and gave that as the replacement reference. May I suggest doing the same when you find expired/nonworking links, rather than simply deleting the links? – •Raven  .talk 07:32, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sig Sauer reference 

message: I changed the final sentence in the article from:  The symptoms of a moderate envenomation would include swelling of the hand, vomiting, mild bleeding, ecchymosis, diaphoretic, sinus tachycardia, and hypotensia, while the most likely circumstance is that of a person bitten collecting rocks.
To the following:  The symptoms of a moderate envenomation would include swelling of the hand, vomiting, mild bleeding, ecchymosis, diaphoresis, sinus tachycardia, and hypotensia; while the most likely circumstance for envenomation is that of a person bitten collecting rocks.
this is a minor edit to help with the flow of this sentence. regards.Ruraltexas (talk) 10:44, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  sentence revision 

message: What nonsense! Certainly there is NO citation needed to prove that humans are not rodents. Thank you for using your intelligence when editing articles.
--188.23.66.91 (talk) 22:36, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: One suspects there might have been a trace of humor in that demand for a citation... or perhaps too clear a memory of certain politicians.... – •Raven  .talk 08:33, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  As humans are not rodents - citation needed?! 

message: Something missing is whether and how they are used by people. Are they eaten? Do people use their skins?Bill (talk) 20:25, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Human use 

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message: "The pygmy copperhead is viviparous, commonly giving live birth to 7 in each litter,[14] with an average maximum of 20 young in a single litter."
What the heck is an "average maximum"? By definition, a maximum is a single number, meaning there is no way to average it.
I don't have access to the source (my university library doesn't have it) to check what the original says. IAmNitpicking (talk) 13:50, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
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