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Copperheads get their name from the color of their heads, copper! |
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They’re about three feet long. |
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They have a special organ called the Jacobson’s organ that helps detect prey along with the use of their eyes, tongue and two heat receptor pits on the side of their heads. |
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A Copperheads favorite place (and usually where you can find them) are piles of dry leaves, rotten logs, stone walls, wooded hills, and piles of trash. |
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Their fangs are folded along the roof of their mouth, which are extended when striking. |
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To breathe when swallowing prey whole, their windpipe extends to the front their mouth. |
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Baby copperheads are about eight inches long. They will be adults in three years. |
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Common meals are mice, lizards, frogs, insects and birds. |
