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Enjoying the #PitviperBeautyPageant on Twitter? (If you haven't seen this, be sure to check it out!) The new episode of #SnakesAreEverything, Snakes Are Dangerous! is posted here @SnakesAreEverything. Learn about the 75 million-year long deadly dialog between snakes and primates from THE Dr. Harry Greene. Rattlesnake fights are rarely lethal, but always beautiful. Rattlesnakes take care of their kids. Sometimes their friends’ kids too. Some snakes are social. Celebrate World Snake Day! Soo excited to see this neighbor yesterday (and she's still hanging out!). We're truly blessed to have Rock Rattlesnakes for neighbors. This little one has been hunting in this crevice, so we haven't been able to confirm, but seems like she could be the same one who visited us for several weeks last year (just a few feet from where we found this one yesterday). Shop for Snakes! Special edition of Snakes Are Everything for World Snake Day: Snakes Are Dangerous! One of our board members, Gordon Burghardt, has a new book: The Secret Social and Emotional Lives of Reptiles. We just got our copy and are SO EXCITED to dig in! The new episode of #SnakesAreEverything, Snakes Are Charismatic! is posted here @SnakesAreEverything and on our YouTube and Facebook channels. Check it out to see how you can participate in some really cool rattlesnake research with @RattleCams! Juvenile Arizona Black Rattlesnake, photographed by Jeff Smith. Arizona Blacks darken with age, though many will never be fully black. New #SnakesAreEverything TOMORROW! Tune in to find out how YOU can get involved in snake research with Project RattleCam. We just love the curious way this Gophersnake is looking outside from his shelter. 🐍💜 Photographed by Jeff Smith. Snakes Are Everything is BACK with Snakes Are Charismatic! ♥️🐍 After a long, and likely exhausting, digging bout, this sweet Eastern Patch-nosed Snake was THIRSTY! When she was unable to get water from our sometimes-leaky cistern, we offered her the hose, and she immediately drank. Tough times in the southwest US for wildlife: drought (two dry rainy seasons in a row) and heat wave. Swipe to see the video. GIANT EYES! We sometimes joke that you can tell they're a baby if their eyes are big, but it is never quite as dramatic as this little one. Newborn (yes, born live, not hatched from egg) Black-necked Gartersnake, photographed by Jeff Smith. An Arizona Black Rattlesnake coiled in between two boulders, photographed by Jeff Smith. A large Sonoran Coralsnake crawling among the damp rocks, photographed by Jeff Smith. "Large" is relative; this individual is barely bigger around than a pencil and less than two feet long -- they're small and secretive snakes! "A snake’s scaled snout pokes forth from a crag recess and feels its first direct rays of sun in months. Her body remains in passage, still nearly as cold as the contents of your refrigerator. After months in her dark retreat, her now-warming head, the seat of most information sensing and processing, must be overwhelmed by the bright surface world that is also coming to life. This moment marks the beginning of a new cycle for many temperate-zone snakes that sequester themselves into nooks on the Earth’s crust, to be reborn into the swelling energy of spring." One of our favorite neighbors stopped by a little early this year! This is Abbie, a large female Gophersnake, climbing around ASP headquarters. We hope she sticks around; there are PLENTY of chipmunks for everyone. It was a dry nonsoon/monsoon last summer, followed by a dry winter, so our neighbors are pretty thirsty. This gorgeous male Crevice Spiny Lizard was VERY excited to get a chance to drink, which we provided by slowly pouring water down the rock into his crevice (mimicking how they'd drink rain). Snakes Are Everything is BACK with Snakes Are Artsy! ♥️🐍 Alice was one of the original Arizona Black Rattlesnake moms we monitored in 2010. We also saw her with babies in 2012, 2014, and 2016 -- and that year she shared her nest site with other mommies, including one of her daughters from 2010! Devil Tail, named for a distinctive blotch on her neck, was one of the original Arizona Black Rattlesnake moms we monitored in 2010. She was a sneaky-good Mom! Often it would seem as if the babies were unattended, but Devil Tail was ALWAYS nearby, keeping a watchful eye over her kiddos. This video was taken in 2016, the fourth summer we observed her with babies.⠀ We met Sigma, Arizona Black Rattlesnake, in 2011 when she was pregnant with her (likely) first litter. She was small, young, but FIERCE. Here's a snapshot, and you can read the full story of Sigma vs. the Squirrel with videos on our blog: www.snakes.ngo/sigma-vs-the-squirrel (also linked in our profile) Luna and her newborn Arizona Black Rattlesnake babies take advantage of a monsoon storm to get a drink. Watch them harvest rainwater from their bodies!⠀ We thought we'd share some of our favorite #RattlesnakeMoms with you this week for #MothersDay. This is Molly, a pregnant female Arizona Black Rattlesnake resting inside a log. Even when it's cold outside, these three Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnakes rush out of their den to get a drink. Their postures are indicative of a snake drinking rain as it hits their back -- an important source of water for them!

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