“What a beast!” Someone else wrote. According to The State, Sean Foley, curator of herpetology at the Riverbanks Zoo & Garden in Columbia,
Stated that the reptile is a harmless watersnake, “probably” a brown one. “Watersnakes try their best to convince potential threats that they might be vengeful cottonmouths,
Even though they are thought to be harmless,” Foley told McClatchy News. According to Foley, “they will defend themselves by flattening their heads, str!king,
And shaking their tails in leaves if they are cornered or attacked.” In the hopes that they will be left alone, “all these things make them appear dangerous to would-be predators.”
