Travel Bug Dog Tag Carl the Killer Coral Snake

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Released:
Sunday, December 5, 2004
Origin:
Texas, United States
Recently Spotted:
In Waterpark fun

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To visit any places in the Southwestern United States

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Carl the Killer Coral Snake

Even with its bright coloration, the Coral Snake is seldom seen due to its secretive nature. Coral snakes are often confused with the King snake. They are both Red, Yellow, and Black banded snakes. If you hike in the Southwestern United States, it could save your life to remember, "Red on yellow, kill a fellow; red on black, friend of Jack." So if a snake has yellow-red-yellow bands, then it's a Coral snake and it could kill you. If a snake has black-red-black bands, then it is a non-venomous King snake.

Coral snakes belong to the same family as the highly venomous cobras, mambas, kraits, and sea snakes. Unlike vipers and pit vipers, coral snakes have fangs that are fixed in position on the front part of the upper jaw and cannot be folded back. Coral snake venom is strongly neurotoxic, affecting the victim’s nervous and respiratory systems, and bites can be fatal. Symptoms can be delayed up to 12 hours after being bitten. The bite can be painless as opposed to a pit viper. Coral snakes account for approximately 30 bites per year in the United States. Fortunately, no deaths related to coral snake bites have been reported in the United States since coral snake antivenom became available.

Please help move this educational traveling snake along. We would appreciate any pictures you could post of Carl the Killer Coral Snake with you or your pet!

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Tracking History (5445.5mi) View Map

Dropped Off 11/30/2008 Forest Forager placed it in Waterpark fun British Columbia, Canada - 12.43 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 11/9/2008 Forest Forager retrieved it from Riverside Cache British Columbia, Canada   Visit Log

I like snakes! I wans't aware of how to tell a coral from a King, so thanks for that! Will allow him to slither along soon.
Dropped Off 10/5/2008 Neil & Carlie placed it in Riverside Cache British Columbia, Canada - 145.36 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/4/2008 Neil & Carlie retrieved it from Road 22 British Columbia, Canada   Visit Log

took the snake from this cache (was glad this was the only snake we found!)
Dropped Off 8/3/2008 Derlwyn placed it in Road 22 British Columbia, Canada - 141.32 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/29/2008 Derlwyn retrieved it from Trogdor's Secret Burnination Cache British Columbia, Canada   Visit Log

Found in the Trogdor cache during a weekend of camping and caching. Will help it along!
Write note 6/29/2008 Doonchak posted a note for it   Visit Log

Saw this in Trogdor cache, which brought back some memories and Doon and Chak saw this in a mundy park cache while out on our first cache experience with Chak's father who was visiting from way out east. Forgot to get tracking number, but he was picked up by my caching buddy, so I know he will get to a good home.
Dropped Off 6/28/2008 tite lines placed it in Trogdor's Secret Burnination Cache British Columbia, Canada - 47.05 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/22/2008 tite lines retrieved it from HALL-5-CACHE British Columbia, Canada   Visit Log

I have never liked snakes much, but Carl is kinda cute. We are going to take him to a place where snakes like very soon.
Thanks for sharing.
Dropped Off 6/13/2008 freedomfieldsfarm placed it in HALL-5-CACHE British Columbia, Canada - 14.99 miles  Visit Log
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