The Maligned Cottonmouth
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4 min readJul 22, 2019
The vast majority of “cottonmouth” sightings are cases of mistaken identification. Many people in the eastern U.S. tend to assume that most snakes are cottonmouths, but this just isn’t so.
Cottonmouths, also called Water Moccasins, are perhaps the most unjustly maligned animals in North America. These snakes do everything in their power to avoid issues with people, but somehow they have an infamous reputation among…
