Arizona Rattlesnake, Western Diamondback

            This western diamondback rattlesnake has fabulous skin that makes it perfect for blending in with the hot dessert features of the desert.  Very common in the southwest.  I generaly would never get to be this close but this beautiful reptile was coiled up behind glass in the great Sonora desert museum in Tuscon, Arizona.  
It bites hundreds of people a year, more than any other venomous snake in the United States. Death from its bite is rare but you should be treated as soon as possible to avoid serious illness or worse.   Rattlesnakes hunt from late evening to early morning, crawling either sinuously like other snakes or rectilinearly like a caterpillar.  You you seen them on a hiking trail keep away and keep you kids and pets away too.

Like other rattlers, the Western Diamondback takes up residence among communities of small mammals such as prairie dogs, rabbits, gophers, chipmunks, ground squirrels, mice and rats, the more the better, usually hunting at night. It ambushes victims along their trails or attacks them in their burrows, sometimes striking and swallowing an animal which weighs more than the snake itself
   

Taken in: United States / Arizona (show map)

Taken on: May 16, 2010

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Camera: Canon PowerShot SX10 IS, f/4.0, 1/15 sec, 15mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon PowerShot SX10 IS
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	0.067 sec (1/15)
Focal Length:	15mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
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