Baby Water Moccasin
After mating in the spring the females will give birth 3 4 months later at which point the young must fend for themselves.
Baby water moccasin. The quick and easy way to identify a water moccasin is to look for its wedge shaped blocky head from above as in a boat you cant see its eyes check for the heat sensing slits beneath and between its eyes and nose and note its olive dark tan dark brown or an almost black body thick and python like in its girth especially in the middle before it tapers to a long thin tip. The water moccasin is a carnivore and will eat anything that it can overpower whether it is warm or cold blooded. Very cute baby water snake. They generally carry around 10 20 eggs and give birth every 2 3 years.
Baby water moccasin mrjuan6869. Older adults are often much darker almost solid black. Notice that the head is also thick and blocky. Their diet mainly consists of fish birds other snakes frogs rodents baby alligators lizards and small turtles.
Water moccasins incubate their eggs within the body of the mother because they are ovoviviparous. Not a moccasin not a copperhead.