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While the density of sidewinders can be up to one individual per hectare, they rarely encounter each other except during mating season. [17] Sidewinders have an extraordinarily accelerated lifecycle, with natural life expectancies of females of about 5 years. [17] Males may live quite a bit longer (maximum known natural lifespan of 13 years).
Sidewinding in a newborn sidewinder rattlesnake. Yellow regions are lifted above the sand and in motion at the time of the photo, while green regions are in static contact with the sand. Blue denotes tracks. Scale imprints are visible in the tracks, showing that the snake's body is static during ground contact. Tracks of a sidewinder in the sand.
Crotalus cerastes cercobombus, commonly known as the Sonoran Desert sidewinder [2] or Sonoran sidewinder, [3] is a pitviper subspecies [4] found in the eastern part of the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Like all pitvipers, it is venomous. The subspecific epithet means buzzertail. [3]
Colorado Desert sidewinder. This form of Crotalus cerastes has the following distinguishing characteristics: the proximal rattle-matrix lobe is black in adult specimens, the ventral scales number 137–151/135–154 in males/females, the subcaudals number 19-26/14-21 in males/females, and there are usually 23 rows of midbody dorsal scales.
Crotalus scutulatus is known commonly as the Mohave Rattlesnake. [3] [4] Other common English names include Mojave Rattlesnake [5] [6] and, referring specifically to the nominate (northern) subspecies: Northern Mohave Rattlesnake [4] and Mojave Green Rattlesnake, [7] [5] the latter name commonly shortened to the more colloquial “Mojave green”. [8]
Steve and Terri visit the Barry M. Goldwater Military Range in Arizona to track down the sidewinder rattlesnake. Afterward, Steve visits the airmen at Luke Air Force Base, who prove to be fans of his show. Steve gets the opportunity to fly in an F-16, the plane that carries the sidewinder missile named after the rattlesnake.
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The Mincarlo was built in the Brooke Marine yards in the Suffolk town of Lowestoft. [2] in 1961.She was one of three sister ships built for W.H. Podd Ltd. The other two ships were called Bryher and Rosevear, and along with Mincarlo were named by the Podd family after small islands which make up part of the Isles of Scilly of the Cornish coast.