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Woody, female Arizona black rattlesnake, defends her offspring from an unseen threat.

This footage was taken with a remote, timelapse camera at Woody's nest in 2012. For more about Woody, check out these blog posts: http://socialsnakes.org/tag/woody

Some snakey love, just in time for Valentine's Day. Double R (male blacktail rattlesnake) spent a couple weeks courting Porter (female) in summer 2013.

Carol, rock rattlesnake, finally finds her lizard meal! Typically, snakes swallow their prey all the way down to the stomach (about 1/3 down her body) before taking off. But Carol was not going to wait that long – she was out of there, out and around the garage as she finished muscling the little lizard down.

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Carol, a female rock rattlesnake, finds and eats a tree lizard that she had bitten. This is the second lizard she has eaten in our yard in as many days!

Read the full story behind this video: https://www.snakes.ngo/carol-seconds

Cletus, an adult male Arizona black rattlesnake, gets a surprise visitor.

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Rattlesnakes often hunt by waiting in ambush for a potential meal to walk by, then striking and immediately releasing their prey. The prey staggers off to die and rattlesnakes use their keen sense of smell to find their meal (scent-trailing).

Read the full story behind this video: https://www.snakes.ngo/carol-dinner

A few moments in the lives of a group of newborn rock rattlesnakes.

Here's Daryl, a male rock rattlesnake, hot on the trail of Carol. Can you see where he picks up her trail?

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Spooky and Ali are adult female Arizona black rattlesnakes 'friends' -- they chose to be together more than twice as often expected by chance.

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Rattlesnakes take care of their babies.

Yep, they really do. But, what does “care” look like in a snake? Do they feed their young like a mother bird? Do they keep them warm? Do they protect them from predators? With the exception of feeding, rattlesnakes care for their offspring in familiar ways. This is a timelapse video (taken at 1 minute intervals) that illustrates a typical day for a new rattlesnake family. The large, black snake is Cap Mama, a female Arizona black rattlesnake that gestated with four other females and gave birth in late August to seven neonates. This video was taken when the neonates are just two or three days old.

Find out more: https://www.snakes.ngo/a-day-in-the-l...

Our hidden camera reveals spring emergence at a den shared by whipsnakes and rattlesnakes. Whipsnakes can eat snakes, so how will they get along?

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Rattlesnakes take care of their kids and even help their neighbors care for theirs. This short clip shows some newborn Arizona black rattlesnakes emerging from their shelter with their mothers and helpers -- including a large adult male who we call Roger.

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Or rather, hail. Porter, a female black-tailed rattlesnake, takes advantage of summer rain to get a drink, before getting caught in a storm.

A juvenile black-necked gartersnake has discovered a shallow pool hosting toad tadpoles. Watch him forage, capture and swallow little tads!

We got a chance to visit some old friends recently and made some new ones.

We noted the landscape looked thirsty, so thought maybe the Arizona black rattlesnakes and whipsnakes would be too. They were pretty excited about water.

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Music courtesy www.bensound.com

Happy Birthday ASP!

Five years ago, three snake lovers noted that negative attitudes may be snakes’ biggest threat, but no one was directly tackling this issue. So on #EndangeredSpeciesDay 2014, we launched ASP to change how people view and treat snakes.

Our work is possible because of your support and help in spreading positive messages about snakes. Enjoy (and share!) this video of those we’re working to protect: a group of Arizona black rattlesnakes hanging outside their den. Notice anything interesting?

This is a timelapse video taken at a favorite hangout near an Arizona black rattlesnake den in southern Arizona, US. As it warms up every spring, these rattlesnakes spend a few weeks hanging out in and near their den before going their separate ways for the active season.

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A Western patch-nosed snake uses his enlarged rostral scale to dig out loose dirt from a rodent burrow.

Molly, an Arizona black rattlesnake, retrieves a Gilbert's skink from the leaf litter. Presumably the skink dove into the leaves after being envenomated by the snake, making it a chore for Molly to find and retrieve.

Music: Summer Mvt 2 Adagio by John Harrison with the Wichita State University Chamber Players ( http://www.johnharrisonviolin.com/)

Boyett and other Arizona black rattlesnakes emerging from their den.

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A western diamondbacked rattlesnake hunts a watering hole and is visited by a broad-billed hummingbird.