(1) The copperhead , a venomous snake, is dangerous, but its bite is rarely life-threatening to healthy adult humans.(2) We said we did not and he informed us the dead snake was a decidedly poisonous copperhead , a creature apparently known to travel in pairs.(3) Bites from copperhead snakes, which are common in the eastern United States, seldom require antivenin therapy because they have the least potent venom and a negligible fatality rate.(4) Ooze into the shadows and try not to sit on a copperhead snake or a bed of fire ants.(5) In the past 14 months on the job he has had more than a few run-ins with deadly snakes, including having a copperhead curl up near his bare feet in his small apartment in the ranch's horse barn.(6) After college, he spent a year in the domestic peace corps in Delaware, where he often visited Philadelphia, and West Virginia, where he tried to avoid stepping on copperhead snakes.(7) Frankly, my only concern was that the resident copperhead (don't ask; I've been sworn to secrecy) got out alive.(8) Through my binoculars, I saw the heat-sensing facial pit between the eye and nostril, which identifies the copperhead as a pit viper.(9) Dogs bitten by any of Texas' dangerous snakes, including rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, copperheads and coral snakes, often suffer unnecessarily.(10) He had been raised by humans since birth, so he wasn't trained in basic chimpanzee survival skills or accustomed to the wilds of Oklahoma, where water moccasins and copperheads abounded.(11) They call it Snake Road, a gravel lane through southern Illinois' Shawnee National Forest, where each spring and fall automobile traffic is prohibited to ensure the safe passage of timber rattlers, water moccasins, and copperheads .(12) It was diverse dialogue - me with stories about water moccasins, copperheads , and alligators, and Bobby describing the land of no snakes whatsoever.(13) In the United States, about 8,000 people a year are bitten by rattlers or their cousins in the pit viper subfamily, which includes copperheads and water moccasins.(14) Join us each day for stories about serpents, from flying snakes to Vietnamese cobras and North American copperheads .(15) This is the only product that can neutralize toxins from rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, and copperheads .(16) There were water snakes in the bottomland, rattlesnakes wedged between the rocks of wooden areas, and copperheads all over the place - especially in the shade under bushes and tobacco plants.