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Timber Rattlesnake
Crotalus horridus
The timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) is the woodland rattlesnake of the eastern United States, and it is a far more patient and less aggressive animal than its reputation implies. It hunts by ambush, coiling at the base of a fallen log along a rodent runway and waiting, so…
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- Timber Rattlesnakes can deliver a 'dry bite,' injecting little or no venom, as a warning to potential threats.
- A timber rattlesnake may spend several days coiled in a single ambush spot, and it chooses the log by tongue-flicking it for the scent of passing mice. Females may not breed until they are ten years old and then only once every three to five years, so a population recovers from losses extraordinarily slowly. Whole valleys of rattlesnakes overwinter in a single ancestral den, which means one persecuted den can wipe out an entire regional population. Despite the reputation, it is among the most placid rattlesnakes and often will not even rattle when approached.
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