How do you identify a baby rattlesnake?
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How do you identify a baby rattlesnake?
A rattlesnake’s most distinguishing feature is its rattles, but baby rattlers don’t have rattles until they shed their skin for the first time. Instead, the baby has a little knob called a button on its tail. When an adult rattlesnake feels threatened, it coils, rattles and hisses all at the same time.
How can you tell a baby rattlesnake from a gopher snake?
An adult rattlesnake will usually have a nice-sized rattle, so that’s easy, but a young rattlesnake may only have a single button. Look instead for rings at the base of a stubby tail (rattlesnake), or a long tapered tail which ends in a point (gopher snake)
How small are baby rattlesnakes?
Rattlesnake eggs will stay inside their mother until they hatch. Most of the time there are 8-10 babies born at once and are about 10 inches long. Babies are born venomous but cannot rattle and are often more aggressive than the adults.
What baby snake looks like a rattlesnake?
Bullsnakes look very similar to rattlesnakes and can mimic their behavior. However, they have narrow heads and round pupils, they lack pits above their nostrils and their tails lack rattles.
What is the size of a baby rattlesnake?
about 6 inches to a foot long
How can you tell if its a rattlesnake?
An adult rattlesnake will usually have a nice-sized rattle, so that’s easy, but a young rattlesnake may only have a single button. Look instead for rings at the base of a stubby tail (rattlesnake), or a long tapered tail which ends in a point (gopher snake).