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Heres the pics of the three mojave rattlers I found the last three nights outside of Lancaster.

This is an aggressive one from 8-25

Same snake

Interesting specimen found on 8-26 with 3 or 4 fused diamonds

Last nights snake (8-27)

Wow! You sure are fortunate to be in an area to see such magnificent animals. Thanks for posting pictures.

Cheers,

Derek K.

Found 2 alive, one dead last night. Heres the pic of the second one:

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Well he started rattling right away and prepared to strike. The others we found just tried to get away, never rattled and never attemped to strike at us like this one. He wouldnt try to get away, I couldnt get my hands on him at all. I had to gently persuade him to get off of the road just moments before a car came speeding by.

That would have been considered defensive. Aggressive is when the snake actually makes threatening advances in your direction (i.e.-moving forward in order to make you retreat).
This phenomenon could be due to you being situated between itself and it's nearest place of retreat, or it could have been determined to stand it's ground.
creep

Ok, the snake was very defensive. Most just tried to escape, didnt get defensive when handled.

Would like to ask you a question about your mojaves. Please email at mahmaderazo@msn.com. Thanks