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The Bandit

This is a banded water snake that was beginning to shed for its new skin for protection. I took this picture at the Eno River in Durham .

 Its had a milky eye which means it was begging to shed.

The story goes.. I step on a twig that the snake was on.. It hid in the twigs and my mentor decided to pick it up and it started using its defensive mode on him and bit him and it wouldn't let go of him.

Heres the Sequence of Pictures from the snakes defense mode:








The bloody mess on my mentors hand from the bite of the snake.















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