Rattlesnake rookery/megaden

[J-BAR #18287]

https://rattlecam.org/

 

Some folks find snakes interesting, others not so much.  If you don't like snakes don't go to the website in the link.  Project Rattlecam has livestream cameras in Colorado and California showing rattlers in their dens.

 

What I find interesting is how tolerant they are of other snakes, not only their babies (rattlers give live birth;  ovoviviparous if you want to impress your friends with the biological term) but with other species.  At the Colorado den, there is a family of garter snakes living in the same rock pile, and the rattlers allow the garter snakes to slither among them just as if they were other rattlers.  Shedding old skins takes much less time than I imagined.

 

Yeah, I'm weird, but you already knew that.

 

edit:  It's been drizzling on the Colorado den.  The camera is panning around showing snakes sipping water from pools on the rocks, and even off their own bodies.

 

I'm easily intrigued!

[J-BAR #18287]

Bump for the night owls.

[Pat Riot]

Thanks J-Bar. 
I was watching a rattler slowly move out of camera shot when the camera zoomed out and moved. I guess someone was monitoring it and panning around looking for more snakes in range of the camera. 
Thanks for the link. I saved it to favorites. 

[Pat Riot]

If you do a search for “African watering hole live stream” you can look at numerous sites with live stream cameras. It’s currently night time in Africa where I was looking at several cameras but you can occasionally see animals at night visiting the watering holes. 
During the day there’s more activity. 
 

Here are some links:

https://africafreak.com/live-african-wildlife-webcams/djuma-waterhole
 

https://www.mpalalive.org/live_cam/wateringhole
 

https://wildearth.tv/djuma-dam/
 

https://africafreak.com/live-african-wildlife-webcams/namib-desert-cam
 

 

[Rip Snorter]

Surplus Napalm?  They are not acceptable neighbors.  Many folks out here were taught as children to kill them with sticks and rocks.  Every one found near the house dies if I can manage it.  The rest of the snakes, free pass.

[J-BAR #18287]

Excellent!  Thanks!!

 

 

 

6 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

If you do a search for “African watering hole live stream” you can look at numerous sites with live stream cameras. It’s currently night time in Africa where I was looking at several cameras but you can occasionally see animals at night visiting the watering holes. 
During the day there’s more activity. 
 

Here are some links:

https://africafreak.com/live-african-wildlife-webcams/djuma-waterhole
 

https://www.mpalalive.org/live_cam/wateringhole
 

https://wildearth.tv/djuma-dam/
 

https://africafreak.com/live-african-wildlife-webcams/namib-desert-cam
 

 

 

[J-BAR #18287]

1 hour ago, Rip Snorter said:

Surplus Napalm?  They are not acceptable neighbors.  Many folks out here were taught as children to kill them with sticks and rocks.  Every one found near the house dies if I can manage it.  The rest of the snakes, free pass.

I don't want to live with them, I just enjoy watching them.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

I'm not crazy about snakes but I won't kill any that aren't poisonous, and I only kill them if I think they are a treat to my dog.  I've been bitten twice many years ago, when I wasn't smart enough to avoid them, by Rocky Mountain Diamondbacks (neither time was fatal) so I'm really careful in snake country...like the entire state of Arizona  I've been told that we have all but two indigenous poisonous snakes in North America right here, but I have only seen a few and none were a problem.

 

They are fascinating to watch, though.

 

I may have written about a former USAF Veterinarian who was  stationed in Thailand.  He was there to take care of guard dogs and saddle horses and such, but spent a lot of his time "milking" cobras.  

[Black Angus McPherson]

19 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

.  I've been bitten twice many years ago, ..., by Rocky Mountain Diamondbacks (neither time was fatal)

 

Whew!  Glad to hear it.  

 

Angus