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While it may be helpful in keeping predators away, Batesian mimicry can cause problems for gopher snakes.

Humans often kill them thinking they are venomous rattlers.

Like the majority of nonvenomous snakes in the United States, gopher snakes have rounded pupils and not vertical, cat-like pupils of rattlesnakes.

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