“He was like, I heard there’s an open bar lol.” Others pointed out that the snake, though it appears dangerous, is a harmless Gopher snake. “Imagine a snake that looks just like a ...

"Any other snakes in Arizona that aren't venomous, like a gopher snake, they're not going to have big heads like that. Their heads are going to be about as thick as their neck," Morris said.

And snake-killing contests are harmful to many species besides snakes. To catch rattlesnakes for the events, hunters too often spray gasoline into gopher tortoise burrows, destroying the burrows and ...