This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The cottonmouth (aka water moccasin, black moccasin, and the black snake) is a venomous pit viper that resides in the southeastern parts of the United States. They prefer slow moving streams, swamps, marshes, edges of a lakes, ponds, or even brackish tidal estuaries. Even though their habitats are constantly being […]

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