It's a foul-smelling liquid discharged when copperheads and other snakes feel threatened and smells nothing like cool and refreshing cucumbers. "It's real sour and pungent," Vandeventer said.

Getting people to change their attitudes about snakes is a difficult task. Knowing more about Louisiana’s snakes can help ...

4 fast facts about snakes Snakes smell by flicking their forked tongues and picking up odors that are transported to special organs on the roofs of their mouths. Snakes do not have eyelids.

Q. Can a Burmese python smell? FWC: McKayla Spencer, the Nonnative Fish and Wildlife Program Coordinator for the FWC, told us snake species, such as the Burmese python, have multiple ways to smell ...

Copperhead snakes can be hard to spot when they hide among dead leaves. But don't count on smelling cucumbers to alert you. Lauren Witte Clarion Ledger Summer is still in full swing and that means ...

From their upturned noses to their dramatic performances of playing dead, eastern hognose snakes are interesting and ...