Collected a nice cotton in northern Alabama.
Went out field herping Sunday morning for about 3 hours. We were mostly looking for cottonmouths and feeder bull frogs. We came upon a massive cotton basking on a log just about 3 feet from the bank. The biggest we had seen in this area was about 2 ½ feet and maybe 1.5 to 2 pounds. This guy taped at 3’8” and weighted 4 pounds. That was after he had musked about 5 times and defecated twice. I am thinking he was about 4.5 pounds when we brought him out of the water. Surprising to me, it probed male, making him the biggest male I have heard of this far north. In the picture he is still packed with mud. Later that night we washed him off showing a clearly defined back pattern. He is very a nice animal. I am very glad we found him.
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www.SCReptiles.com 2.2 Crotalus adamanteus. 2.2 Crotalus h. atricaudatus. 2.2 Crotalus h. horridus. 1.1 Agkistrodon p. piscivorus. 1.1 Agkistrodon c. contortrix. 1.1 Agkistrodon c. mokasen. 1.1 Agkistrodon c. laticinctus. 1.1 Agkistrodon c. pictigaster. Agkistrodon c. phaeogaster. 1.2 Sistrurus miliarius barbouri. 1.1 Micrurus fulvius. 0.0.1 Micrurus fulvius tenere
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