 The copperhead, if you took darker copper figure eights and laid it over the back of the snake, that's what a copperhead looks like. There's no vertical or horizontal stripes at all on a copperhead. Now let's talk about, just for a second, where these folks could expect to find. Obviously a water snake is going to be in, on, or around that water someplace, but how about a copperhead? What's the habitat? It's similar. The copperheads are similar, but copperheads are a lot more secretive. They're a lot more hard to find.