In more common terms, the snake is being held closer to the camera to make it look larger-the same thing anglers do to make a dink look like a wallhanger.Īccording to Vandeventer, the average female Eastern diamondback rattlesnake is about 4 1/2 feet long and males average 5 feet or so. He's simply holding it out to the camera using forced perspective." "The snake in the picture is female," Vandeventer said. The size of the snake in the photo appears impressive, but Vandeventer said in reality, it's nowhere close to the claims. So, any claims it was killed elsewhere in the state would be false. The Eastern diamondback's range in Mississippi is limited to the southernmost counties. "That kid did kill the snake, but everything beyond that is incorrect." "This has been around, minimally, five years. "I've confronted this picture before," Terry Vandeventer, herpetologist with the Living Reptile Museum, said. Yes, another internet hoax circulating in Mississippi. Those lengths would make it largest specimen ever documented.
There were also reports of it being 8 feet, 6 inches long and even 9 feet.
A search on the internet quickly found the photo again and claims were made it was killed in numerous locations and most outside the reptile's home range.
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