1. Rattlesnakes occur in the warmer, drier parts of North America.

2. There's fucking rattlesnakes all in the grass out there.

3. The guide told us to look sharp because there are rattlesnakes around.

4. As soon as we opened the car doors we could hear the sizzling of the rattlesnakes.

5. The Mafia was as much at home in Britain as coconut trees or rattlesnakes.

6. Boa constrictors bear live young but pythons don't; rattlesnakes and chameleons do, but cobras and iguanas don't.

7. Rattlesnakes and other types of vipers manufacture special proteins that bind and inactivate venom components in the blood.

8. Copperheads are known to rattle their tails to mimic rattlesnakes in the hopes of discouraging potential approaching predators

9. Lloyd Cole first stepped into the spotlight when Lloyd Cole & The Commotions released their effortlessly hip debut album ‘Rattlesnakes’ in 1984

10. Canebrakes – known as timber rattlesnakes outside the coastal plain region – prefer to make their home in mature, hardwood and mixed pine forests where they …

11. The fire might be that of a flaming kerosene-soaked cloth or an acetylene torch, and the snakes could be rattlesnakes or copperheads, not too hard to find in the Appalachian Mountains of the United States, where these groups are the most common.

12. Antivenin (Crotalidae) polyvalent a serum containing specific venom-neutralizing globulins, produced by immunizing horses with venoms of the fer-de-lance and the western, eastern, and tropical rattlesnakes, used for treatment of envenomation by most pit vipers throughout the world.

13. In snakes and amphibians, the Canthus, canthal ridge or Canthus rostralis, is the angle between the flat crown of the head and the side of the head between the eye and the snout, or more specifically, between the supraocular scale and the rostral scale.It is defined as a sharp ridge in many viperids, but is rounded in most rattlesnakes, for example

14. Predators of prairie dogs include badgers (Taxidea taxus), black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes;), bobcats (Lynx rufus), coyotes (Canis latrans;), long-tailed weasels (Mustela frenata), red foxes (Vulpes vulpes), bull snakes (Pituophis melanoleucus), prairie rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis), Cooper’s hawks (Accipiter cooperii), ferruginous hawks (Buteo regalis), golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos), northern harriers (Circus cyaneus), peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus), prairie falcons (Falco mexicanus), redtailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis), and Swainson’s hawks (Buteo swainsoni; Sperry 1934, Olendorf 1976, Hoogland 1981, Hoogland 1982b, Powell 1982, Halpin 1983, Campbell et al. 1987, Hoogland 1995).