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They can even handle the bite from venomous snakes such as cottonmouths, timber rattlesnakes and copperheads.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2022

The world hosts hundreds of wildly different venomous snake species, from brightly banded coral snakes to camouflaged cottonmouths.

From Scientific American • Nov. 26, 2021

If cottonmouths swam through our lakes and rivers, what else might be hiding there?

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2020

Rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, coral snakes—bites from all will be painful at least, deadly at most.

From Golf Digest • May 3, 2018

It was as though I had suddenly found myself in a dark room filled with poisonous cottonmouths.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison