eulogies Aren't Only For Funerals. With its -logy ending, eulogy means literally something like good speech. We are told to speak only good of the dead, but a eulogist actually makes a speech in the dead person's honor--or often instead for someone living, who might actually be there in the audience.
3) This snake is unlikely to be 24 feet long. It is a lot closer to the camera than the back-hoe so our perception of size is skewed. My guess is the snake is 10-12 feet long. Still a big snake. 4) Bladen County, North Carolina isn't exactly ground-zero for giant rattlesnakes. The world's largest species of rattlesnake (up to about eight feet long), the Eastern Diamond-back Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus), is known from North Carolina (see range map); historically they occurred in the coastal regions.
Northern Pacific Rattlesnake. Notes on identifying subspecies of Western Rattlesnakes, Crotalus oreganus, found in California. 8. Red Diamond Rattlesnake. A large rattlesnake, found in the Colorado desert and south coastal region.