Zoomed in: 
If I hadn’t somehow clicked right on it when enlarging the pic, I never would have seen it.
First thing I noticed was the cactus that is wanking one out
Never ran into one in Phoenix but in Tucson, we ran into a green one on the way up Mount Lemmon. Beautiful but frightening.
Rattlers are adorable and I refuse to think differently. Their little angry snoots and tail wiggles. Maraca butts!
Danger noodle
Bitey rope
Sting stick
Nope rope
Murder shoelace
Yesssss I love r/findthesniper posts. Good shit
Me trying to see the “little guy”
The one time where a red circle would actually have been useful…
i am no red circle camp, the search was part of the fun
I upvoted both cause I’m being a fence sitter and can’t decide which I agree with.
Hey look at me, im a rattle snake! I camouflage well info my environment then wait till you get close to loudly announce my presence like some sort of joke. GREETINGS!
Fun fact:
Snake venoms are generally classified into four main functional types: neurotoxic (attacking the nervous system), hemotoxic (disrupting blood clotting and destroying red blood cells), cytotoxic (destroying local cells and tissues), and myotoxic (causing rapid muscle breakdown).
https://a-z-animals.com/animals/snake/snake-facts/4-types-of-snake-venom/Those were some fun facts! Thank you 👍
Yes, I want to subscribe to Snake Facts
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@anon6789@lemmy.world’s been doing a killer job with it. 🙂
I love my slithery friends! Met a chonky python at the zoo yesterday and got to give him pets. Even came home at night to a wiggly garter snake on the welcome mat. Glad I saw him in the shadows, I’d have felt terrible if I hurt it.
I’d be happy to include some more snakes. They could always use positive coverage.
So fun!
I would not have found that, before it was to late.
They would probably rattle before you too got close.
Me with my headphones in, on my last day on Earth… 😬
Wear tall boots if you’re hiking in rattlesnake territory
Wear tall boots while hiking regardless. Ankle support is important when you don’t have the infrastructure to make it easy to get to you.
that’s when they go for the balls
Tall boots and a cod piece it is then.
Just tall boots and a codpiece, if you’re feeling confident
What?
Except, naw, Crocks.
You deserve to be flogged and then bit!
It never ceases to amaze me how little survival instinct many people have these days. Like you ride on your bike with your headphones on and your eyes on your phone and delegate all responsibility for keeping you alive to other people.
Lemme be real here: I do not make it a habit to go places where there are rattlesnakes. As far as I’m concerned, I spent a lot of money on my house, and see little reason for leaving it, least of all for places far from EMT support.
I was just noting that my city-smarts-only self would be the one having a “let me go find myself with a hike” moment and absolutely get bit because it never occurred to me to leave the headphones at home so that I could hear the rattlesnakes.
I have the same opinion.
I think that as a society, we have become far too dependent on having something playing in our ears at all times, almost as if we’re afraid of being with our own thoughts.When I am out walking, it’s just me and the sounds of whatever is happening around me. Don’t just hear, but listen to the birds, distant vehicles, a dog barking, wind in the trees, and in this case, a rattlesnake looking for something to nibble on.
This is where the phrase “If it had been a snake, it would have bit me.” comes from.
I have one or two of these come to hang out near my house each year so I just load them into a garbage can and take them to the north forty so they don’t bite my dogs.
Casual badass. *no /s
We had a real problem with the babies around the house when I was a kid - they often don’t have enough of a rattle grown yet to alert you.
It’s one of the reasons that now, I leave some tidbits out for the local family of possum - they come by each night. They love to munch on small snakes, and are immune to most snake venom. Plus they eat mice and rats as well:
That looks like West Tucson!
Yep, I got out at 4:30 this morning to the El Camino del Cerro Trailhead before it got hot.
Genuinely took me a hot minute to find that nope rope
I’m pretty sure I would have died. It took me way too long to spot it.
I guess IRL the sound would’ve helped.
