A Florida officer was called to settle a life-and-death battle between a snake and hawk in Gainesville. 'Unless you got it on video, it didn't happen,' a colleague told the officer over radio. Read more:
:"Our communications center received a call from a citizen reporting an injured hawk on the sidewalk."
Pictures from the bodycam footage of the deputy who was called to respond after a hawk and snake were seen entangled on the roadside in Florida.Despite the unusual nature of the call, Forgey said that deputies are relatively used to deal with animal-related callouts.. Many carry equipment with them to deal with such calls since much of the area we work is rural," he explained., also known as a black racer.
Usually around 20-56 inches in length, the long and slender snakes have large prominent eyes and a black or blue-back with white markings around the chin and throat. Found throughout every county of Florida, they are non-venomous snakes that while not dangerous are known to readily bite to defend themselves.
But the hawk that had decided to snack on the black racer had a nasty surprise when its dinner started to bite back.
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