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Crotalus viridis (Common names: prairie rattlesnake, [3] [4] Great Plains rattlesnake, [5]) is a venomous pit viper species native to the western United States, southwestern Canada, and northern Mexico.
Kansas is home to 15 species of turtles. [1] Family Chelydridae – snapping turtles ... Prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis) Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus)
If you live in Kansas you share your state with many different types of snakes. Kansas is home to more than 40 snake species that you could encounter in Kansas, but only a small portion of them ...
Prairie rattlesnake: Colorado — Benham died from a rattlesnake bite in Adams County, Colorado, 17 miles north of Deer Trail. September 25, 1900: Edward Comstock, 39, male: Rattlesnake: Ohio — Comstock died as result of a bite from a rattlesnake during a snake handling exhibition on Water Street in Chillicothe. A newspaper article read ...
Before-and-after photos show the rattlesnake was saved “from its stupidity” via surgery. It was not revealed how long the prairie rattlesnake may have had the trap in its gut, but the mouse ...
A Guide to the Rattlesnakes and other Venomous Serpents of the United States. Tricolor Books. Tempe, Arizona. 129 pp. ISBN 978-0-9754641-3-7. (Sistrurus catenatus tergeminus, pp. 74–75.) Say, T. In James, E. 1823. Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820.
Prairie rattlesnake may refer to: Crotalus viridis , a.k.a. the plains rattlesnake, a venomous pitviper species native to the western United States, southwestern Canada, and northern Mexico. Sistrurus catenatus , a.k.a. the massassauga, a venomous pitviper species found primarily in the United States.
Rattlesnakes receive their name from the rattle located at the end of their tails, which makes a loud rattling noise when vibrated that deters predators. [2] Rattlesnakes are the leading contributor to snakebite injuries in North America, but rarely bite unless provoked or threatened; if treated promptly, the bites are seldom fatal.