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Thread: Rattlesnake or Gopher Snake?
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06-04-2014, 05:29 PM #1
Rattlesnake or Gopher Snake?
On a ride today and ran across this li'l fella - http://www.bogley.com/forum/showthre...-Overlook-Ride
At first I thought it was a Gopher snake, because, well, I just run into those more often. Plus, it didn't coil up and rattle at me at first. I thought the pattern looked like a Gopher snake, so that's why I go so close to it with my camera.
Then I heard the rattle and thought maybe I should back up a bit.
@Alex and @BruteForce have made great points saying the Gopher snake can even rattle to imitate a Rattlesnake.
What do you think?
Here's a shot I was able to get with my phone. What I think is the rattle is in the lower left.
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06-04-2014 05:29 PM # ADS
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06-04-2014, 05:40 PM #2
Doesn't matter. I would have been out of there, too. At the 16 second mark you can see the tail rattling. Whether I am right or wrong, I would have exited also.
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06-04-2014, 05:53 PM #3
That's a rattler, dude.
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The foundation of paradise for others.
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06-04-2014, 08:17 PM #4
Rattler. Gopher snakes don't rattle to imitate, they hiss to imitate the rattle.
The stark banding on that guy, never mind the RATTLE is a dead giveaway, though they don't always look like that.
LNT
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06-04-2014, 08:45 PM #5
Yeah I was way too close with my phone. Probably 18 inches away lol
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06-04-2014, 09:01 PM #6
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06-05-2014, 10:21 AM #7
When I first watched your video I was thinking to myself "this is why young males are the ones who usually get bit by rattlesnakes".
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06-05-2014, 10:34 AM #8
Man--ya got to kill them things. I hear they've migrated into Zionz now.
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06-05-2014, 11:14 AM #9
Yikes! Run for the hills!
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06-05-2014, 02:58 PM #10
Crotalus oreganus lutosus...nice...and, a big 'un!
Common around the Wasatch.
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06-05-2014, 08:57 PM #11
I ran into one a couple of weeks ago that was a chocolate brown color with black markings. I've never seen a rattle snake that dark. He was about 3 and a half feet long and crawled away from us about 10' then turned and slowly came back towards us and coiled up about 4' away. Never rattled at all... if the 2-1/2" of rattle wasn't visible I'm not sure if I'd have thought him a rattler. Tis the season!
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06-07-2014, 07:21 AM #12
Haven't you guys read the e-mail that was circulating about 2 years ago that we humans have successfully killed off the rattlers that shake their rattles as a warning and now we're left with the ones that don't rattle that lovely little warning at you. Maybe it's actually an internet truth!
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