Great basin rattlesnake coiled to strike with only tongue moving

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A Great Basin Rattlesnake curled up in the leaves below a bush rattles warningly as it uses it's tongue to sample the smells in the air on a summer evening on Gooseberry Mesa in Southern Utah, USA.

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A Great Basin Rattlesnake is curled up in the dry brown grass. He is motionless as the wind blows the grass until he sees something, lifts his head to look and then settles back into his tight coil.

Great basin rattlesnake coiled up sticks out tongue then rattles tail

If your job was to study rattlesnakes, how long do you think you would last? 🐍 This #NationalParkWeek we're taking a deep dive into how technology helps wildlife biologists in the park follow and understand rattlesnakes. Passive Integrated Transponders (PIT) tags are small chips about the size of a grain of rice. These tags, the same used in dogs and cats, are carefully injected under the skin of the rattlesnake. Tags are read with a computer scanner and allow each individual snake to be identi