“It looks gigantic,” said Josh Rolfe, a lieutenant with Denver Animal Protection. So don’t get in its face, because that face has plenty of teeth in it, said Tina Jackson, a species conservation coordinator with Colorado Parks and Wildlife.Īnd yeah, this Cherry Creek Trail unit is a pretty big one. They can be somewhat aggressive if they are provoked. It’s a bullsnake, also known as a gopher snake, a non-poisonous creature that’s really common in Colorado, according to wildlife experts. But this specimen is rather large and has a lot of teeth. Like most snakes, this Denver “thicc boi,” as described by one Reddit user, isn’t really dangerous to humans. It doesn’t help that probably the best-selling book of all-time starts with a villainous snake tricking a woman into eating a piece of fruit that sends the entire human race on a path toward endless repentance, as the story goes.
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Here’s a photo of the creature posted by Reddit user orange69er, who “came across this unit on the Cherry Creek Trail.”) (We couldn’t get permission to use the Snake On A Trail photo so you get these special visuals created by Kevin. She also admitted, “This is the third time this week I’ll need to tuck my pants into my socks.” “I live 26 miles from here, and that’s still too close,” Paolo said, adding later that he would cry if he saw this snake in person.įrancie helpfully informed Paolo that snakes move really fast and this one could probably be at his doorstep in 10 seconds.
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It was a typical Thursday in our online newsroom when a fellow reporter shared with us a Reddit picture of what looked to be a huge slithering snake on the Cherry Creek Trail.