The common notion is that we should stay away from wild animals as they can be harmful towards the humans but we don’t give attention on one aspect – the wild animals are beautiful as well. However, there are times when we are left shocked at the incidents involving the wild animals.

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If you remember we have always been told by our elders that we should be careful while walking on the muddy paths or paths which have grass or leaves lying on them as some insects or reptiles may be hidden over there and they can bite us.

Here is one example to prove that we should always listen to the elders. Have a look at this photo, you may feel that this photo contains only dry leaves but there is one snake also, can you see the snake:

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Some time back, this photo was shared on the micro-blogging site, Twitter by Helen Bond Plylar who Twitter handle is @Sssnakeysci with the caption,

“Received this from a fellow HERper this morning. No caption needed, the task was implied: “can you spot the snake?””

Received this from a fellow HERper this morning. No caption needed, the task was implied: "can you spot the snake?" 🐍 pic.twitter.com/oVkjOm8ufy

— Helen Bond Plylar🐍👩🏼‍🔬 (@SssnakeySci) April 23, 2017

Soon the Twitter was flooded with reactions as people were not able to believe that there is a snake camouflaged in the photo.

Here are some reactions:

That some good herpy camo!

— Katrina Hucks (@katrina_hucks) April 23, 2017

how do you post this and then not post the answer D:

— What duck? (@geeoharee) April 23, 2017

Wow. That snake blends in very well

— Steve Katsaros (@steve_katsaros) April 23, 2017

It's funny, when you see a copperhead outside of its native habitat, you'd never think it was well camouflaged, then you see that…

— Naja pallida (@naja_pallida) April 23, 2017

Cannot, after several minutes of scouring. And my reactive reptile brain can normally see them from space.

— Milton W. Oldman (@Misanthropod) April 23, 2017

I give up, where is it? Circle in red. With arrows.
(I lost 15min of my life here..)

— Jude 🗳 🌐 (@Jxnewton) April 23, 2017

After some time, Helen also posted the answer:

If y'all haven't found it yet… Copperhead, aka Agkistrodon contortrix. Cute but venomous, so no touchy! ☺️🐍❤️ pic.twitter.com/pSVMIhFP0o

— Helen Bond Plylar🐍👩🏼‍🔬 (@SssnakeySci) April 24, 2017

Here is the photo in which you can zoom and take a good look at the snake which is Copperhead, aka Agkistrodon contortrix. Helen also wrote that Copperhead is cute but venomous so one should avoid touching it.

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Here is a photo of Copperhead snake without leaves:

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That was quite a great puzzle, isn’t it.