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    7 months ago

    I can’t see the paper on that page, just the image, is there more to it than just the image and the claim?

    What snakes have they checked?

    edit: I think this is really about identifying rattlesnakes, more than about identifying venomous snakes in general. There’s two counterexamples on the “anal scale” page of wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_scale

    the undivided end on an elapid venomous snake, and the divided on a colubrid


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    7 months ago

    It’s not even an indicator, there’s places where the opposite is true, this is like the myth of the vertical slit pupils meaning they’re venomous, there’s no actual correlation, this just coincidentally works in areas with few snake species, but you’d have to know that ahead of time, and since there’s few species wherever this does work, you might as well just learn what the venomous snakes look like so this is practically completely useless.

    This usually happens when somebody learns that in their local area this rule applies, and then assumes it applies everywhere.