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I'll add a side note here - they don't always rattle, adult or baby. I see it quite a bit actually. They'll still coil up and be ready to strike, but won't always rattle or give warning. I'd much rather they always rattled so I know to back the fuck up. Now if they are coiled up ready to go, and you provoke them, you can get them to rattle. But sometimes they just sit there and eyeball fuck you without making a sound, sort of daring you to come closer. I have also heard that baby rattlers can be more dangerous because they are still learning to issue their venom. More likely to dump the whole load, whereas an adult knows how to issue the right amount for the job and overdoing it would be a waste of resources.
I have heard some say that the not rattling is some sort of protective adaptation, because they have critters like wild pigs that eat them. When they rattle they give up their location. No idea if this is true, and among the biologists I work with there are differing opinions on whether this is actually the case. All I know is that I have seen a lot rattle, but also a lot not.
Rattlers love to hang out in the caves we frequent. I used to carry a box of M1000s in my field bag, and I'd drop one down the entrance before we entered. That would definitely get them to rattle if one or more were present
I'll add a side note here - they don't always rattle, adult or baby. I see it quite a bit actually. They'll still coil up and be ready to strike, but won't always rattle or give warning. I'd much rather they always rattled so I know to back the fuck up. Now if they are coiled up ready to go, and you provoke them, you can get them to rattle. But sometimes they just sit there and eyeball fuck you without making a sound, sort of daring you to come closer. I have also heard that baby rattlers can be more dangerous because they are still learning to issue their venom. More likely to dump the whole load, whereas an adult knows how to issue the right amount for the job and overdoing it would be a waste of resources.
I have heard some say that the not rattling is some sort of protective adaptation, because they have critters like wild pigs that eat them. When they rattle they give up their location. No idea if this is true, and among the biologists I work with there are differing opinions on whether this is actually the case. All I know is that I have seen a lot rattle, but also a lot not.
Rattlers love to hang out in the caves we frequent. I used to carry a box of M1000s in my field bag, and I'd drop one down the entrance before we entered. That would definitely get them to rattle if one or more were present
View: https://youtu.be/bP3lFw9JnNQ
What are you doing to do with them?
LOL I just pissed off some of my California buddies
Got invited to "The River" for the Holiday weekend by some friends
of mine. I said yes until I googled the camp area and "river"
Californian's actually call this shit a river and nature area. LOL
If I want to sit in an overcrowded bathtub I can do that at home
and without driving 75 miles
Big Rock River
View: https://youtu.be/m9KKQ5p1DXM?t=89
Got invited to "The River" for the Holiday weekend by some friends
of mine. I said yes until I googled the camp area and "river"
Californian's actually call this shit a river and nature area. LOL
If I want to sit in an overcrowded bathtub I can do that at home
and without driving 75 miles
Big Rock River
View: https://youtu.be/m9KKQ5p1DXM?t=89
May post some pics of my Jumping Spiders and Mantids fucking shit up later
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Indoors in my spider room but outdoors related
My Hyllus Diardi female being greedy and killing crickets shes not
even gonna finish eating
View: https://vimeo.com/527463234
Now that she has a mouthful... here she is estimating jump distance
jumping back to her safe space so I can't fuck with her while she devours
her loot
View: https://vimeo.com/527464115
Finishing the spider room when I should be getting ready for my Poker tournament
View: https://vimeo.com/528147284
My Hyllus Diardi female being greedy and killing crickets shes not
even gonna finish eating
View: https://vimeo.com/527463234
Now that she has a mouthful... here she is estimating jump distance
jumping back to her safe space so I can't fuck with her while she devours
her loot
View: https://vimeo.com/527464115
Finishing the spider room when I should be getting ready for my Poker tournament
View: https://vimeo.com/528147284
Been wanting to start a cool ant farm. Not enough time though
My spiders and mantids are ahandful to keep as is
Mojave rattlers all over the trails here when I go running.@Grateful Dude Q @Qat Funny I had my own scare the other day...
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Was smack dab in the middle of my living room.
If you are from the southern US you can see it looks like a baby rattlesnake colors are similar but that lil fker is actually a Gopher Snake.
Rattlesnake
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Gopher Snake
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I caught the bastard in a metal bucket and chucked em. Harmless but still a Cunt.
Hate the lil bastards
Had my headphones on and almost stepped right on this lil fucker and I had
been jogging for a good 30 minutes so my heart rate was way up. No way I would
have made it back to town
View: https://vimeo.com/556460525
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Article might be of interest to you, sir : Fact Checker: Are Baby Rattlesnakes More Dangerous?I'll add a side note here - they don't always rattle, adult or baby. I see it quite a bit actually. They'll still coil up and be ready to strike, but won't always rattle or give warning. I'd much rather they always rattled so I know to back the fuck up. Now if they are coiled up ready to go, and you provoke them, you can get them to rattle. But sometimes they just sit there and eyeball fuck you without making a sound, sort of daring you to come closer. I have also heard that baby rattlers can be more dangerous because they are still learning to issue their venom. More likely to dump the whole load, whereas an adult knows how to issue the right amount for the job and overdoing it would be a waste of resources.
I have heard some say that the not rattling is some sort of protective adaptation, because they have critters like wild pigs that eat them. When they rattle they give up their location. No idea if this is true, and among the biologists I work with there are differing opinions on whether this is actually the case. All I know is that I have seen a lot rattle, but also a lot not.
Rattlers love to hang out in the caves we frequent. I used to carry a box of M1000s in my field bag, and I'd drop one down the entrance before we entered. That would definitely get them to rattle if one or more were present
The article makes sense to me. That’s one of those things I’ve heard repeated a lot over the last 20 years, but I could easily see how that’s just some incorrect information that was ran with.
kind of the same thing with what I mentioned about some rattlers not making noise as a protective measure from pigs or whatever. Some claim that’s the case, but other biologists I know say it’s complete bullshit.
Their articles are great. I'd strongly recommend that anyone who enjoys or spend time outdoors "Like" their Facebook page.
I’m one of those curmudgeons that hasn’t ever had a FB or any other social media. But I am clicking around their website now from the link you posted. Gave me something to do while I make pancakes ?
They have a newsletter also. Send out an email once a week or whatever. Same things will be there, just a little bit behind.
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Why is California so gross.
It’s not California that’s gross. It’s the artificial people who live there that are gross.
Because there is no decent nature here. People think fishing is
paying $200 for some over crowded lake stocked with organic
trout sprinkled with rainforest drops
I have to drive across half the state to find a decent place to kayak
and when you get there its an overcrowded dump
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