FL Rattlers Mating

[727geckokid]

I got these pics in an email from a friend who took them while in Central Florida. hope you enjoy:main_thumbsup:

The Meeting:

The Kiss:kiss::

The Dance:main_yes::

The Dirty :main_robin:

Well Time to go:

Same Time tomorrow???:main_thumbsup:

Hope you Enjoy

 

[Halley]

Those are great!

 

[T&KBrouse]

Benn, those are freakin' AMAZING! :shocked2:
Talk about being in the right place at the right time!

 

[Nigel4less]

Great Pictures!

 

[Ga_herps]

Those don't look like Eastern diamondbacks to me. Are you sure the pics are not from texas or somewhere out west?

 

[727geckokid]

Nope they came from cape caniveral. I dont know what Kind of Rattlers they are but they deff came from FL

 

[Ga_herps]

Those would have to be the most drab easterns I have seen. Really reminds me of westerns.

 

[reptiles3]

They are fighting not breeding

 

[Halley]

They are fighting not breeding

I was wondering that, but didn’t fell I knew enough to say anything. :main_laugh:

 

[727geckokid]

??????? My Friend said that he Clearly saw copulation But if you guys say so:main_thumbsup: Just like Nick I dont know enough so i just have to go by what he said. Either way its pretty cool that he got Some good shots of this

 

[Valley Reptiles]

They are fighting not breeding

They are Westerns. The Western Dbacks have the black and white banded tail like these and the Easterns have the darker tails. Your friend probably tried to fool you.

That's male combat.
Like these guys The winner gets to breed the female.

 

[727geckokid]

Thanks Eric, After i saw your post i called him and asked and he said that he thought that they were mating so i guess that he just wasnt sure.... Also Westerns in Cape Canaveral, Fl??? He said that the pics were for sure taken in Florida

 

[Valley Reptiles]

Thanks Eric, After i saw your post i called him and asked and he said that he thought that they were mating so i guess that he just wasnt sure.... Also Westerns in Cape Canaveral, Fl??? He said that the pics were for sure taken in Florida

The only way those pictures came from Florida is if someone released 2 Westerns in the wrong place or they somehow migrated to Florida

 

[Valley Reptiles]

The pictures were definately not from Florida. Found the pictures doing a google search of rattlesnakes mating:main_thumbsup:

The pictures are from this website, near the bottom of the page
http://www.snakeboots.com/snakepic.htm

 

[727geckokid]

Well I feel like a complete IDIOT!!!!!!! :main_thumbsdown: I can honestly say that I had no idea... I have the emails saying that he took them and That they were in Fl.

Eric Thank you for enlighting me and i assure that i have sent the link to him and asked him why he did that.. Again i apologize for the confusion

Can you say embarassing:main_thumbsdown:

 

[Crazygecko]

Awesome pics but its interesting how your friend got those. Because obviously the ones you have posted arent cropped like the ones on that website that Firecrested posted.
But no who cares. awesome pics of combat. And if I saw that in the wild I think I would just turn around and walk the other way. Because with my dumbluck I would step on the female they are fighting over and get tagged.

 

[nevinm]

these pictures are INCREADABLE

 

[Gregg M]

Western diamond backs are no where even remotely close to Florida...

Distribution
Western diamondback rattlesnakes occupy a geographic range that includes western Arkansas, eastern and south-central Oklahoma, Texas (except the extreme east and northern panhandle), central and southern New Mexico and Arizona, extreme southern Nevada, southern California, and southward into Mexico to extreme northeastern Baja California and northern Sinaloa in the west, and northern Veracruz, Hidalgo and Querétaro in the east. Most of its range lies below 1,500 m. (Ernst, 1992). However, in San Luis Potosí, Mexico this species has been found at elevations of 2,438 m (Werler and Dixon, 2000). The southernmost distribution for the western diamondback rattlesnake is northwest of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico (Campbell and Lamar, 2004).

 

[moosassah]

Those are awesome pictures...whatever they are doing.