Tracey Cauthen spotted the colorful, 4-foot-long snake while hiking in Ocala National Forest, 47 miles north of Orlando, the FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute wrote on Facebook. The Florida Museum of Natural History confirmed to the institute that this sighting was their first record of the species in Marion County since 1969.The museum said rainbow snakes are nonvenomous and harmless.
"Rainbow snakes are highly-aquatic, spending most of their life hidden amongst aquatic vegetation; seldom seen, even by herpetologists, due to their cryptic habits," according to the institute.Read MoreBiologists speculate that the snake, also nicknamed the"eel moccasin," slithered its way into the forest after a recent change in water levels in the Rodman Reservoir.
BoSnerdley Did the hiker kill it? That would be the appropriate response.
Next!
And the gays will claim it's wearing their colors🙄
Beautiful
AlfyBurbank Don't tell don tRUmp jr.(mini-don) he'll want to kill it.
Today’s edition of “Only in Florida”!!
PRETTY!
Kill it. Kill it with fire
kyleelynn18 They need to keep it protected
I'm surprised DonaldJTrumpJr didn't shoot it. TrumpForPrison2020 ImpeachedForLife CadetBoneSpurs RussianAsset
The swamp in DC and Florida is filling up not draining.
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