#the rattlesnakes

[justjulszik]

Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - Man of the Hour

[scheppke]

animated animal villains who are not the main antagonist but are a force of nature in their own right who elevate the film to a new level and leave protagonists quaking has definitely gotta be one of my new favourite genres

[valtsv]

humans need a threat display. there should be a socially acceptable universally understood way to say "i swear to god if you fuck with me i'll kill us both".

[herpsandbirds]

Mexican Small-headed Rattlesnake (Crotalus i. intermedius), family Viperidae, Veracruz, México

Venomous.

photographs by René Villanueva Maldonado

[solacebean]

The Goat

[tetrameryxx]

Amekhoz, dragon of fire, is only seen in the depths of summer, setting alight field and forest. His cyclical lifecycle is short and brutal, but a known constant, unlikely to fizzle out over the long term.

[malotte00]

Hell yes cowboys!

[nemfrog]

Rattlesnake. First book of nature. 1888.

Internet Archive

[her0isms]

the only good snake,

is a dead snake.

a thing i had on my mind this morning

all art & writing by me, danny valentine

[rebeccathenaturalist]

This FB post (which was public at the time I grabbed this screenshot) is Reason #90510 I teach nature identification classes and am SO adamant that my students look at ALL the details of a given animal/plant/fungus. Also, I ran the photo through iNaturalist just for the heck of it. Its first suggestion was timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus), but its second was western rat snake (Pantherophis obsoletus). This is why you never, ever, ever use an app as our only tool for identification, because you need to also have the critical thinking and observation skills to be able to differentiate between species, to include when the app offers up two similar species where the difference can be a serious matter.

I hope the OP makes a quick and full recovery, because I can't imagine getting tagged by a venomous snake is much fun. Please skip any judgemental comments about Darwin Awards, etc.--I have seen plenty of intelligent people make bad mistakes, and have even made a few myself, though none with quite this level of consequence. It can happen to anyone; thankfully OP realized their error in time to get medical help.

[hannahorca]

My next enamel pin Kickstarter: Reptile Mutations launches tomorrow!

What other reptiles would you like to see?

You can find the campaign page here:

[thagomizersshow]

A thing that kind of lightens the sting of seeing one of my favourite animals used as a right-wing symbol is that the rattlesnake on the "don't tread on me" flag looks so sad and starving.

Real rattlesnakes are chunky as all hell when healthy.

Also, that weird loosely coiled pose is just blatantly not what they look like when ready to strike. A real rattler ready to mess you up looks like a figure eight of pure muscle.

Conservatives once again ruin the chance to have a cool symbol by making it look stupid.

[blondedsixties06]

HI here’s the main 3 as their animal versions all together. SORRY for the boring headshots I will be doing a fullbody lineup of them soon too because they deserve it

[herpsandbirds]

SPECIAL HIBERNATION CUDDLE BUDDIES!!!

Prairie Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis), family Viperidae, VENOMOUS, and Wandering Garter Snakes (Thamophis elegans vagrans), family Colubridae, basking outside a communal hibernaculum, Colorado, USA

It is not uncommon for both rattlesnakes and garter snakes to use communal overwintering dens/hibernacululae, often sharing the site with other species. Other snakes do this as well.

The Wandering Garter is a subspecies of the Western Terrestrial Garter Snake.

photograph by Emily Taylor

[seabeck]

Slithering away

[weepingwidar]

Marisa Adesman (American, 1991) - Immortal Coil (n.d.)