I was running in a canyon in southern California and saw what I thought was a small log across the path ahead. I would have just stepped over it, but then saw it was a rattlesnake when it cocked its head to look at me. I turned around and went back the direction I came from.
When I lived in Hong Kong there was a huge cobra in the driveway of my apartment block. I told the security guard and he said “yeah. I saw it”. Lol. Eventually the thing went somewhere to get out of the sun.
THERE IS A SUB+SPECIES OF RATTLESNAKE CALLED “THE MOJAVE GREEN.”
IT IS VERY AGGRESSIVE & IT WILL COME AFTER YOU.
RIDING NEAR LAKE HUGHES MANY YEARS AGO WITH A FRIEND ON WIDE FIRE ROAD. STARTED DOWNHILL-—OTHER RIDER SAID, TURN AROUND & WE WILL GO ANOTHER DIRECTION...
THE SNAKE WAS COMING UP THE HILL AT US AT A VERY RAPID RATE-—WE WENT A DIFFERENT TRAIL
NOT SMALL & VERY AGGRESSIVE.......