Paused my Creeped-Out feature & learned bits about rattlesnakes. Turning the Creeped-Out back on now.
I don't negate other creatures, am perfectly willing for them to have their space, am even willing to concede I/humans are intruding on them. Just want to find my own space away, and am going back to mine, now.
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https://apnews.com/article/rattlesnake-den-camera-livestream-colorado-34763e0416d849aaa9f818423b9da98f#
.... The public can watch too on the Project RattleCam website and help with important work including how to tell the snakes apart. Since researchers put their remote camera online in May, several snakes have become known in a chatroom and to scientists by names including “Woodstock,” “Thea” and “Agent 008.” ....
Rattlesnakes are not only among the few reptiles that care for their young. They even care for the young of others. The adults protect and lend body heat to pups from birth until they enter hibernation in mid-autumn, said Max Roberts, a CalPoly graduate student researcher.
“We regularly see what we like to call ‘babysitting,’ pregnant females that we can visibly see have not given birth, yet are kind of guarding the newborn snakes,” Roberts said Wednesday. ....
Like other pit viper species but unlike most snakes, rattlesnakes don’t lay eggs. Instead, they give birth to live young. Eight is an average-size brood, with the number depending on the snake’s size, according to Roberts. ....
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