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Prarie or Western Diamondback? Found near Santa Fe, NM

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Prairie. And those are probably from Wyoming. Those pictures have made their way around the internet quite a bit lately. I've seen people try to claim they're from South Texas, Oracle, AZ, Wyoming, and now New Mexico!
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Diego

Yeah... I think I saw those pictures on another site over a month ago and they were from "texas" back then... lol

Weren't they from a "beach" area at some point too, lol?
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Joe

Too funny!,....that same photo was posted here just a few weeks ago it seems. They were alleged to be hibernating right at the water's edge on a beach in south Texas..LOL!

Can't you see all the crabs running into their little holes there along the beach?..hahaha!!,.....look at all the driftwood there too!..LOL!........kidding of course,....wow!, those pics sure have gotten around lately.

~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

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those are NOT from south Texas, Wyoming, New Mexico, or anywhere else like that. They're from southwest louisiana in a very sandy type of swamp not far from my house. They were hibernating in a crawfish hole and all came out when they smelled the gumbo I was making. Of course I had to feed them. There's no way I'd tell all of those "swamp rattlers" that they couldn't eat.
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You had me going there for about a half a second...
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Diego

I saw those for the first time about 3 years ago. They were said to be from Florida then. I'm assuming that's what pics they are, but for some reason I can't see them here at work.

it's a photo of lots of prairie rattlers coming out of a den in a desert-type setting with hilly terrain. looks similar to west texas, but could be NM, Arizona or any other state in that area.
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I remember the pic of the viridis denned up in the "Florida" drain pipe. This one is different, but same variety of Crotalis.

~~Greg~~

they are MOJAVE RATTLESNAKE .The Mojave rattlesnake can easily be mistaken for the Western Diamondback rattlesnake.

...they are Prairie Rattlers, Crotalus viridis.
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Diego