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The tiger rattlesnake, aka tiger rattler, is a species of venomous pit viper that hails from the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. The genus name Crotalus is Latin (hailing from the Greek krotalon) meaning “rattle”, “bell”, or “castanet” and their specific name tigris, (coming from the Latin name for […]

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The great basin rattlesnake is a smaller species of venomous pit viper which dwells in California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming. They are a subspecies of the western, aka prairie rattlesnake. Due to a lack of major threats and a stable population these vipers are listed as Least Concern […]

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The midget faded rattlesnake, aka faded rattlesnake or yellow rattlesnake, hails from Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, in the United States. They prefer rocky hillsides, cliff-faces, slopes with a great deal of crevices & rock cover, and sage-brush thicket habitats. Their greatest threat is habitat destruction, due to mining and the […]

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The eastern diamondback rattlesnake, North America’s largest venomous snake species, can be found in North Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama, in the United States. These vipers prefer dry pine forests, pine and palmetto flatwoods, sandhills, coastal maritime hammocks, grass-sedge marshes, swamp forests, cypress swamps, mesic hammocks, xeric hammocks, sandy […]

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