#rattlesnake

[samimarkart]

Finally, some new art! Really had fun with the colors on this one, feels the complete opposite of the rainy spring I’m experiencing right now 🌧️

[scarvoart]

Learned recently that peafowl will attack and eat venomous snakes

[herpsandbirds]

Rock Rattlesnake (Crotalus lepidus), family Viperidae, WE TX, USA

Venomous.

photograph by Francisco Portillo

[toyastales]

Coiled Rattlesnake. Culture: Aztec, Central Mexico, carved from stone, dating from c. 1200-1519, measuring 30.5 x 24.5 x 10 c

[thatdamnokie]

concept: a biblically accurate angel but it’s a rattlesnake and every time its tail shakes it sounds like holy holy holy

[bedupolker]

RE your recent tags on not getting stung/bitten by critters; I recently saw a video of professionals removing a rattlesnake from someone’s home, and it was stuck under the sink or something so they had to grab it with their hands for a second to maneuver it around, and even though the snake was giving a warning rattle, it never tried to bite. I’ve also seen people replicate Schmidt’s insect sting scale and have to physically put the stingers into their own skin because the bug won’t sting them on its own even after getting bothered & handled & agitated. I think it’s interesting that a lot of things would rather just try and either get away or wait for a threat to pass, at least when it comes to people.

Definitely varies by species/individuals but the rattlers I've encountered in California are absurdly chill. I've seen more gopher snake bites by multitudes. I've seen them be stepped on and just shuffle away looking slightly annoyed. Once I had to relocate a huge one off a crowded beach with a snake wrangling tool, it basically felt like moving a pantyhose filled with sand, it didn't even think about striking me.

(hopefully it goes without saying, in spite of this, don't bother rattlesnakes)

^ extremely bad picture and hard to tell what's going on, but here I walked in on what I can only describe as two rattlesnakes...... spooning? No aggression/mating behavior, just fully chilling out. Social behavior's well documented in timber rattlesnakes, but these two are probably great basin rattlesnakes.

[koukouvayia]

I was overthinking this way too much so I'm just posting it now. Biting off more than you can chew for year of the snake

[typhlonectes]