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The Nurturing Nature of Rattlesnakes

Is it her simple body plan? Her poker face? Or perhaps a vast mythology of her malevolence and supernatural abilities? Humans have a tough time describing what snakes do, let alone understanding why they do it. Proud skeptics that they are, scientists long doubted that snakes are capable of complex behavior. Reports of pitviper aggregations, especially mothers with young, are not new; but, until only recently, they were dismissed as happenstance, even by their biggest fanatics.

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📷 Madam X, a huge female Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake, regards one of her newly shed babies.