What kind of snake is a rattlesnake?

The rattlesnake is a tube-toothed venomous snake of the family Agkistrodon halys. It is generally 1.5 centimeters long, has a yellow-green body, has a diamond-shaped black brown spot on the back, and a series of horny rings at the end of its tail, which is a remnant after molting many times. When encountered by the enemy or rapid activity, it will quickly swing the tail ring of the tail, which can swing 40 times per second and 60 times per second. It can make a loud sound for a long time, so that the enemy does not dare to approach or be scared away. So it's called a rattlesnake.

Rattlesnakes can be divided into two genera: Rattlesnake and Rattlesnake. The Rattlesnake is small and has 9 large scales on its head. Rattlesnakes vary in size and vary from species to species, but the scales on the top of the head are very small. The most common rattlesnakes in North America are wood-grained rattlesnakes in the eastern and central United States, prairie rattlesnakes in several western states, eastern rhombus rattlesnakes and western rattlesnakes, the latter two of which are the largest. Rattlesnakes are distributed in arid areas from Canada to South America, with a large difference in body length. For example, several smaller species in Mexico are only about 30 centimeters, while the eastern rattlesnake is about 2.5 meters.

A rattlesnake is typically characterized by a rattlesnake's tail ring, which is like a string of dry hollow beads. When shaken, the ring will rub against each other and vibrate the hollow machine to hiss to warn the intruder. The newly hatched baby rattlesnake has only one ring in its tail. The ring will slowly increase with the peeling again and again (except Santa Catarina rattlesnakes, the ring will lose one section each time it is peeled), the longer the ring, the louder the sound. This also means that the older the rattlesnake is, the younger the rattlesnake, which has no ring, will attack without warning because it is unable to sound a warning.

Rattlesnakes eat rodents and other small animals (such as rabbits, mice, etc.). Young snakes mainly feed on lizards. Rattlesnakes quickly suppress their prey with toxins that can immediately stun or kill their prey. Rattlesnakes track prey that is not suppressed by the toxin and try to escape, attacking at distances up to 2/3 of their body length. King snakes, cuckoos, pigs and eagles are all natural enemies of rattlesnakes.

Rattlesnakes are born with fangs that can be injected with toxin and can control the amount of injection. Most of the rattlesnake toxins have the function of destroying blood tissue, eroding a large number of platelets in the blood, causing the blood to fail to coagulate and produce serious internal bleeding, but some of them will greatly increase the platelets and freeze the blood coagulation in the main blood vessels, which will hinder the blood flow and eventually lead to vascular rupture due to blood blockage. A few venoms, such as small shield rattlesnakes, also contain functions that attack the nervous system.

Rattlesnakes, like other snakes, are neither heat-resistant nor cold-resistant, so tropical species have become dormant day and night, hiding in various hiding places (such as burrows) in summer and dormant in stone cracks in winter. Most rattlesnakes mate in the spring, and all species are oviparous, usually a litter of more than a dozen, and the baby snakes can stand on their own feet after birth, so the female will not stay with the baby snakes.