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) is at the top of my list of “most exquisite snake species.” Sure, it may not be as colorful as the gorgeous green tree python, or as intimidating as the king cobra, or as gigantic as the anaconda orThe Santa Catalina Island rattlesnake is native to Santa Catalina Island, located off the east coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula in the Gulf of California. The island is relatively small, measuring approximately eight miles long and two miles wide.
The Santa Catalina Island rattlesnake is a venomous species of pit viper. It is thought to be mostly nocturnal, hunting for mice and small reptiles at night. It is a small rattlesnake, measuring approximately two feet in length. Theories abound as to why evolution made the rattle of the Santa Catalina Island rattlesnake go away. One hypothesis is that losing the rattle was a stealth adaptation that made the Santa Catalina Island rattlesnake quieter and more effective arboreal hunters of birds and mice in the island’s vegetation patches.from a 2008 South American Journal of Herpetology study casts doubt on this theory.
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