Rattlesnake Facts #shorts

Rattlesnakes are not aggressive and will not attack humans if unprovoked, in fact, they are quite shy and timid.

Rattlesnakes are pit vipers, a group named for the small heat-sensing pit between each eye and nostril that aids in hunting. The pits provide the snake with stereoscopic heat “vision,” enabling them to detect and accurately strike a living target in complete darkness and are nocturnal, hiding during the day but emerging in the evening or at twilight to hunt for prey, which consists primarily of small mammals, especially rodents.

The newborn babies are also equipped with a single button on the end of the tail. After the first shedding of their skin (within a week of birth), they will have two rattle segments. Once the third rattle segment has been obtained, the young snake can buzz like an adult.

Every year in the United States, an estimated 5,000 rattlesnakes are collected and destroyed in about 30 highly commercialized “rattlesnake roundups.” Rattlers are a valuable service in the control of rodent pests and in maintaining the natural balance of desert ecosystems.

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