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13863
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North Carolina is close to the top of the charts each year in the number of persons bitten by snakes. Copperhead bites are the most common, and fortunately for the person bitten, the least dangerous. Between 1977 and 2005, only two people died from a snake bite in the state.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 75 Issue 4, Apr 2011,
p4-9, il
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Record #:
8067
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This species of snake has as many vernacular names as color-pattern variations. In North Carolina it is known as the highland moccasin, pilot, poplar-leaf, white oak and red oak. In coastal areas it is often confused with the corn snake. The copperhead accounts for 90 percent of all the venomous snake bites in the state, but its bite is seldom fatal. It can be considered a beneficial snake because part of its diet consists of mice and small rodents. Breeding usually occurs in the spring and three to twelve young are produced.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 30 Issue 4, Apr 1966,
p20-21, il
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