The areas where you can find timber rattlesnakes in South Carolina are expanding. Rudy Mancke discusses.
Transcript (edited for clarity):
RUDY MANCKE:
Hi, this is Rudy Mancke from USC for NatureNotes.
A while back, Frank sent me a picture of a dead snake and wanted it identified. I think he knew it was a timber rattlesnake. In the old days, you'd call the version that he sent me a canebrake rattlesnake.
But where he saw it was interesting. One mile north of Winnsboro, SC, is a big area there that didn't have rattlesnakes when I was growing up. They weren't included in the range maps. And now, range seems to be expanding a little bit. And of course these are dangerous snakes. They get large enough, long enough fangs, large dose of venom that they are troublesome.
You see them in the mountains too. You see them on the coastal plain and along the Savannah River. But now they're moving more on the Piedmont. Beware!
