00:05venomous encounters navigating the dangers of America's snakes a six-foot rattlesnake coils
00:11in Florida palmetto scrub across Florida swamps Arizona deserts and Georgia pine woods venomous
00:17snakes rattle glide and flash warning colors before a human steps too close the eastern
00:23diamondback rattlesnake stretches past six feet in Florida and Georgia lifts its heavy body off
00:27the sand and delivers venom that can trigger internal bleeding a cottonmouth floats through
00:32a Louisiana swamp gapes its bright white mouth above dark water and strikes with venom that can
00:37shred tissue when a fisherman startles it the Mojave rattlesnake slides across Arizona desert gravel
00:43buzzes its tail near creosote bushes and injects neurotoxic venom that can shut down breathing
00:48if treatment comes too late the eastern coral snake threads through sandy pine woods in Florida
00:53flashes red yellow and black bands and carries a neurotoxin that can paralyze lungs despite its shy
00:58behavior the western diamondback rattlesnake suns on a Texas trail rattles hard when hikers approach
01:04and accounts for many serious bites across the American southwest a timber rattlesnake curls on a
01:10rocky Appalachian ledge vanishes in dead leaves and strikes with hemotoxic venom from New York down to
01:15northern Georgia from Georgia marshes to Arizona washes these snakes survive by warning first hiding
01:21well and punishing one careless step one boot in the wrong grass can turn a quiet trail into an ambulance
01:26call
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