SuizoReport: Black Velvet
SuizoReport: Black Velvet: “A new religion that will bring you to your knees Black Velvet if you please……….. Howdy Herpers, On 16 April, John Slone escorted …”
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Bandshell
Halfway between Tucson and Phoenix, a crumbling granite hillside gives way to a cactus-studded alluvial plain. Small, sandy washes break up this landscape and facilitate the growth of desert trees. Here, the western diamondbacked rattlesnake flourishes during times of plenty and, in leaner times, retreats to refuges to idle until conditions improve. In February of
SuizoReport: Stuck Up atrox Part 2 +
SuizoReport: Stuck Up atrox Part 2 +: “Howdy Herpers, My good friend Melissa Amarello, AKA ‘Cerbermiss,’ has a most excellent website constructed around her work with Ariz…”
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Serpent Research: More on Ending Rattlesnake Roundups
Serpent Research: More on Ending Rattlesnake Roundups: “The following commentary was on the Andalusian Star News January 29, 2011 The City of Opp’s Rattlesnake Rodeo Web site cauti…”
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Alice
Memorial Day Weekend 2010. Alice is a big, beautiful, dark female Arizona black rattlesnake with mustard yellow scales outlining each dorsal blotch. We first encountered her ~20 meters from a known rattlesnake den. Several of our party walked right by before we discovered her, coiled at an opening beneath a boulder, without her rattling or
Are aggregations of Arizona black rattlesnakes stable and complex social groups?
In 2010, we initiated a study of social behavior in Arizona black rattlesnakes (Crotalus cerberus) at sites where they aggregate. Here is a preview of our videos. Surveillance and timelapse videos taken at Arizona black rattlesnake hibernacula. Timelapse videos created with the PlantCam by Wingscapes and Adobe® After Effects® CS4 software. This first short video
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