At Big Thicket National Preserve, where I am taking a field course on the ecology and natural history of the place, we came across this little-bitty grey rat snake. Nonvenomous, and here's how you can tell: the pupils are round like ours. On poisonous snakes, the pupils are vertical slits. So, although this fellow could—and did—bite, it wasn't harmful.
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