| While we normally leave rattlers alone, this one had to go, which it did with a close range blast from my shotgun. |
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| Already, it has spared hundreds of dogs and their owners from bad encounters with rattlers. |
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| Most preposterous is the concept of rapid introgression of Mojave toxin genes from Mojave rattlers into timber rattlers. |
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| The quail and chicks go to the indigos, cribos, gators, corn, kings, ratsnakes, copperheads, cottonmouths, Timber rattlers, and diamondbacks. |
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| He is as unctuous as they come and as slippery and lethal as a herd of rattlers in a barrel of oil. |
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| Before you start sacking, make sure the rattlers are grouped together, but not tangled up. |
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| As the search for effective antivenom goes on, the rattlers continue in their propensity for remaining placid until disturbed. |
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| It had rained briefly that evening, a hard downpour that meant the rattlers would be out, having been flushed from their holes. |
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| The name conjures images of coiled rattlers ready to lash out with deadly fangs. |
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| These are vestigial toenails, signs that rattlers are related to lizards and shed their feet somewhere along the evolutionary ladder. |
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| Timber rattlers are often observed in groups during and after gestation and also when shedding their skins. |
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| What are some of the more interesting things you learned about rattlers that you didn't know before making this film? |
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| One of the old rattlers crawled into the station like a desert explorer desperately clawing his way towards an oasis. |
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| Brightly plumaged, these jays range just north of the Mexican border, in areas such as Hidalgo County, Texas, home of sizable rattlers. |
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| He had respect for them, even as he respected the grizzly and the rattlers that his trail crossed. |
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| In the United States, about 8,000 people a year are bitten by rattlers or their cousins in the pit viper subfamily, which includes copperheads and water moccasins. |
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| I thanked him and wandered down the river, making enough noise to frighten off bears and rattlers, until I found a likely spot. |
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| While brass bands welcomed the Hawks on to the ground, train drivers guiding their red rattlers past the railway wing would toot their horns in accompaniment. |
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| Pit viper snake venoms are hemotoxic, except for some Mojave rattlers. |
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| However, in general, lizards are more diurnal than rattlers, which may be one of the reasons why young rattlers are more diurnal than adults. |
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| Despite their seemingly strong hold on life, as indicated by the persistence of movement in decapitation tests, rattlers are relatively frail creatures and are easily killed. |
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| There is the pit adder called Habu. This kind is the worst of the three. These snakes are three inches thick and six feet long, and resemble our diamond back rattlers at home. |
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| A couple of tow-headed pre-teen boys, during a surprisingly non-sexual game of Chicken, are overrun by a rabble of Rattlers and are fanged to death. |
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