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.
The average size of a mature Western Diamondback Rattlesnake is 3 - 5 feet in length, with some getting as large as 7 feet. The Western Diamondback Rattlesnake is the largest rattlesnake in the western United States. The Western Diamondback Rattlesnake is a heavy, thick-bodied snake. The body of the snake varies in color and can be yellowish grey, grey, tan, or pinkish and has dark diamond-shaped blotches that form a pattern along the snake's spine. The diamonds are outlined in a cream color.