Southern black racer (scientific name: "Coluber constrictor"), the racer is more likely to suffocate or crush its victim into the ground, rather than coiling around it in typical constrictor fashion. Man remains the greatest enemy of black racers. Many are killed on highways and others are intentionally killed out of fear. The white chin causes some people to kill this snake, believing that it is a cottonmouth – a venomous snake more commonly called a water moccasin. The venomous snake has a white lining inside of its mouth. Racers are nonvenomous and do not breed with cottonmouths. Natural enemies include such birds of
European water vole farm. C. S. Calverley a 19th-century writer of (among other things) light verse, in his poem "Shelter," beginning: "By the wide lake's margin I mark'd her lie--" "The wide, weird lake where the alders sigh--" Tells of an apparently shy, easily frightened young female by a lakeside, who in the last line of the poem, it's revealed that: "For she was a water-rat." European water vole The European water vole or northern water vole ("Arvicola amphibius", included in synonymy: "A. terrestris"), is a semiaquatic rodent. It is often informally called the water rat, though it only superficially resembles a true