I thought I had seen a harmless little bull snake.

And since this is a Garden of Eden story, there is a serpent, the bull snake, which is native to Mexico.

Cliff recognized them as large, but harmless "bull" snakes.

The snake charmer brought along a pair of bull snakes.

"You should have ordered them a couple of weeks ago, when we got the bull snakes."

What passes for the supposedly deadly reptile is the common hog-nosed or bull snake.

At a recent practice, a goalie defending a portable net dived onto a three-foot-long bull snake.

Say, they hang together like bull snakes and rattlers, don't they?

It also plays home to many different reptile species bull snakes, rattlesnakes, sagebrush lizards, coach whips, and box turtles.

Steve's arms were entwined in a couple of live bull snakes borrowed from Alhambra.