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07-28-2003, 01:03 AM

I'm not sure about the validity of this, but I have been told that some rattlers are not rattling as a warning do the the snakes that are more likely to rattle being consistently captured for rattlesnake roundups and such. Perhaps the large amount of capturing and killing of rattlers is forcing a new evolution of non rattling rattlers. If that snake is one of them, then he is probably rattling on the inside.

07-28-2003, 01:03 AM	#3
Uffern	I'm not sure about the validity of this, but I have been told that some rattlers are not rattling as a warning do the the snakes that are more likely to rattle being consistently captured for rattlesnake roundups and such. Perhaps the large amount of capturing and killing of rattlers is forcing a new evolution of non rattling rattlers. If that snake is one of them, then he is probably rattling on the inside.