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	Name:	JUA -
	Subject:	Dang-if-I-no
	Date:	9/29/2006 6:15:33 PM

Thanks for the definitive answer. The FLA diamondback reference came from the snake-a-torium owner in Panama City who had one in his shop floor explaining the differences between it and the eastern diamondback, as well as on some recent TV shows where scientists were hunting them. That scientiest dropped into a cypress stump to wrestle with a cottonmouth, so I'm not sure where ranked in his class's graduation.

Maybe I don't know what I saw, but I've never seen a 7-foot timber rattler. The 7-footer had typical markings of the eastern diamondback instead of the timber, and didn't have that funky foamy goo that is on timber rattlers.
As to how/why they morph colors, I have no idea.

Up here (middle-Tennessee) we have the pygmy rattlers from the state's severely threatened list, timber rattlers, (though the biggest I've seen was about 4-feet - mostly 2 to 2.5 ft but fat), some beautiful copperheads and I've seen just one cottonmouth.
Exact specie doesn't matter much. They can all cause severe damage if you get on the wrong end of the tail. It can cost over ten grand in treatment, too.

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