🐍 How to tame wild Water Snakes and turn them into your friends! 🐉
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Feeding wild water snakes in Texas
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In this video, I was fishing on the shore of a creek in Texas when all of a sudden I was surrounded by water snakes. They were not there for me, they were there for my bait. I started feeding them and we became friends and they stayed with me the whole time I was there, waiting for me to feed them.
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🐍 Plain-bellied Watersnakes (Nerodia erythrogaster)
Nerodia erythrogaster, commonly known as the plain-bellied water snake or plain belly water snake, is a familiar species of mostly aquatic, nonvenomous, colubrid snake endemic to the United States.
Geographic range
This species ranges through much of the southeastern United States, from Michigan to Delaware in the north, and Texas to northern Florida in the south, but it is absent from the Florida peninsula and the higher elevations of the Appalachian Mountains.
Habitat
They are almost always found near a permanent water source, a lake, stream, pond, or other slow-moving bodies of water.
Description
Adults are 24–40 inches (76–122 cm) in total length, and can reach up to 55 inches in some states such as Kansas.
It gets its common name because it has no patterning on its underside. Subspecies can vary in color from brown to gray, to olive green, with dark-colored blotching down the back, and an underside that is yellow, brown, red, or green.
Behavior
It is quick to vigorously defend itself by striking repeatedly and flattening its head making it look like a cottonmouth, which is why it has been commonly mistaken for a venomous snake.
Reproduction
This species bears live young (ovoviviparous) like other North American water snakes and garter snakes. In North Carolina and Georgia, the plain-bellied water snake breeds from April to June, and broods of 5-27 young are born in August to October. In 2014 a captive female produced two healthy offspring via parthenogenesis.[2]
Subspecies
These six subspecies of N. erythrogaster have been historically recognized, including the nominotypical subspecies. However, in 2010, Makowsky, et. al. determined that there was "little support for the recognized subspecies as either independent evolutionary lineages or geographically circumscribed units and conclude that although some genetic and niche differentiation has occurred, most populations assigned to N. erythrogaster appear to represent a single, widespread species."[3][4]
Nerodia erythrogaster alta (Conant, 1963) - plainbelly water snake
Nerodia erythrogaster bogerti (Conant, 1953) - Bogert's water snake
Nerodia erythrogaster erythrogaster (Forster, 1771) - redbelly water snake
Nerodia erythrogaster flavigaster (Conant, 1949) - yellowbelly water snake
Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta (Conant, 1949) - copperbelly water snake
Nerodia erythrogaster transversa (Hallowell, 1852) - blotched water snake
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