Northern water snake The belly also varies in color. It can be white, yellow, or gray. Usually it also has reddish or black crescents. The northern water snake is nonvenomous and harmless to humans, but superficially resembles the venomous cottonmouth and is often killed unnecessarily as a result of this mistaken identity. The two can be easily distinguished by morphological traits: the water snake has a longer, more slender body and a flattened head the same width as the neck, round pupils, and no heat-sensing pits. The cottonmouth has a fatter body, a wedge-shaped head with prominent venom glands that are wider than
The Water Goblin apocalypse more vivid than if he had only used the original 3 beats. This section ends with a ritardando (slow down), so the listener is prepared for a sudden fast and short swirl in the violins when the bridge cracks. The next section starts with a sudden E–C–G chord, as the girl hits the water. Dvořák changes key back to B minor for the water goblin theme, and he speeds up the tempo to a lively "allegro vivo", which depicts the swirling waters engulfing the girl, for which Dvořák uses as well the "Russian" device of a descending whole tone