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The hoop snake can be distinguished from a regular snake
by the way it moves. When a hoop snake travels around, it grabs its tail
(with the poison stinger at the end) in its mouth and rolls along until
it sees something it wants to sting. Then, it whips the stinger out of
its mouth quick enough and lashes out with its tail.
The hoop snake is far more venomous than any diamondback rattler. It has a stinger on its tail and anything that stinger touches can be sent straight to the undertaker's. Hoop snakes can kill a 200-pound man, or a 2,000-pound bull. Hoop snakes can sting a giant tree and kill it. I've been shown that 100-foot poplar trees in Alabama have died from hoop snake stings. |
