My hearing has gotten so bad, i wonder if I would hear the damn thing rattling.
They don’t always buzz - I’ve seen the damn things strike without making a sound.
I wouldn’t plan on any of them rattling. The feral hogs love to eat rattlesnakes and the rattle is a dinner bell. So we have a bit of punctuated evolution that has selectively eliminated the noisy ones.
The hair on the back of your neck will stand strsight up regardless!
The hair on the back of your neck will stand strsight up regardless!
I was walking up a dirt road with a large group of people. I happened to be near the back of the procession, talking with someone. I noticed out of the corner of my eye that familiar disruptive color pattern on the other side of the person I was walking with. There was a large timber rattler that everyone had walked right past, well within striking distance.
In some places they hunt them, and the rattle is a means of finding them, and the selective pressure has caused them to stop rattling, and just strike. Don’t know if that trait is spreading.