I live in a highly wooded area in PA and I have often smelled strong cucumber in the middle of walking my dogs. Many people say that it's an old wives' tale that copperheads smell like cucumbers, but my question is... what else would smell like cucumbers that strongly? In my research, I have learned that they do emit a musk, but whether that musk smells like cucumbers is a mystery.
Copperheads This is, in fact, myth. Copperheads do not smell like cucmber and rattlesnakes do not smell like watermelon.
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Copperhead snakes usually find shelter under fallen trees, under and between rocks and in caves. They like holes and tight places where they feel secure against preditors such as birds of prey like hawks and eagles.
A coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum) eats other snakes including venomous species like rattlesnake or copperhead. Other items in their diet include small mammals, birds, bird and reptile eggs, lizards, frogs, insects, and carrion.
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Cucumbers, but only when it's startled.
Copperheads This is, in fact, myth. Copperheads do not smell like cucmber and rattlesnakes do not smell like watermelon.
Copperhead snakes reproduce sexually. You can tell because they are reptiles. All reptiles reproduce sexually.
Snakes breath through nostrils like you and me, but if you mean how do they smell, then the snake's sense of smell is in it's tongue, which is why snakes flick their tongues a lot.
Not really, there are types of NCR paper (or CCP pper - the type of paper that repaced carbon paper and is primarily seen in white - yllow - pink) than when being copied have a smell very similar to cucumbers. In fact I found this question while looking online for a reason WHY it smells like cucumbers.
I wasn't aware that snakes have a distinct smell, maybe you need a good bath :P
They love them I think they enjoy the smell of cedar.