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  • Missouri Copperheads

    They are vital to the natural scene, they rarely bite, they never kill.

  • Massasauga (Massasauga Rattlesnake)

    Video of a massasauga in the wild.

  • Osage Copperhead

    Video of an Osage copperhead in the wild.

  • Timber Rattlesnake

    Video of a timber rattlesnake in the wild.

  • Massasauga (Massasauga Rattlesnake)

    This shy, reclusive, nonaggressive rattlesnake used to live in floodplain wetlands of the Mississippi, Missouri and Grand rivers, but as those wetlands have been drained and destroyed, the massasauga has disappeared with them. Now it is an endangered species.

  • Osage Copperhead

    Copperheads are pit vipers, with an opening on each side of the head and (in daylight) eyes with catlike, vertical pupils (our nonvenomous snakes have round pupils).

  • Timber Rattlesnake

    Missouri’s largest venomous snake is dangerously venomous, but there are few cases of rattlesnake bites in our state. It frequents rough country, is mostly nocturnal in summer and few Missourians ever encounter it.

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