Animal Facts: Prairie rattlesnake

The most famous is a unique ring at the end of the tail, you can tap and hum it. A flat triangular head hides a pair of retractable canines. Body color is light gray to greenish brown, black spots on the back, creamy in the lower abdomen

Whenever a rattlesnake falls off the skin, rattles are added to the string five times in the first summer and once or twice a year. Men tend to have more rings than women

Because the body temperature of grassland rattlesnakes is cold-blooded animals, it is affected by the surrounding environment.

In winter, I sleep in caves and caves of other animals. In the cool spring and fall weather, rattlesnakes hunt during the day and hottest in the hot summer.

Rattlesnake rattles in grassland are not aggressive, and usually escape if there is opportunity. But as a predator, it has unique assets. It uses its tongue as part of its odor and thermal film, it allows it to detect up to 30 meters away

Rattlesnake rattlesnake violently attacks its prey and kills it by fixing them with poisonous poison in poison. Its normal impact distance is two thirds of the length of the snake (average 60 to 76 cm). Rattlesnake feeds on small mammals running on the ground, amphibians, reptiles and birds.

Large grass palm rattlesnake can be found in southwestern Saskatchewan and southeast alberta. In the United States, the range extends from Idaho and Montana to Western Iowa to Northern Mexico.

According to the Alberta Wildlife Conservation Law, it is illegal to kill, possess, buy or sell Rattlesnake snails in Alberta without permission, as Prairie Rattlesnake is classified as an animal that does not participate in the game (Alberta Government 2011d )) In addition, the Wildlife Conservation Act protects grassland rattlesnake from hibernation throughout the year (Alberta Government 2011d). Some cave locations in rural parks, natural zones, ecological protected areas can protect snakes and hibernation to some extent (A. Martinson pers. Comm., B. Moffet pers. The difference will depend on many factors, such as land use in these areas, traffic volume, etc. Rattlesnake populations of meadows exist in ecological reserves of WOSPP, DPP, and Kennedy Creek / Milk River Canyon (Cottonwood Consultants 1986, 1987). In addition, the population is in the Canadian Army Base Suffield SNWA and the Commonwealth owned Onefour Experimental Farm.

Grasshopper rattlesnake Crotalus viridis is one of three existing rattlesnakes in Canada and is the only Rattlesnake species in Alberta (Behler and King 1979, Crother 2008, Russell and Bauer 1993). As a result of evaluating the state of the Alberta state in 2000, as a result of the shortage of state names, we found that that species did not provide enough information to judge the state within the state ( Alberta Endangered Species Protection Commission 2000). . But considering this species and many threats to its habitat, this species is listed as a state's May risk based on the general situation of the 2010 wild species in Alberta (2011 Alberta Sustainable Resource Development). In Canada, rattlesnakes in grassland are also occurring in Saskatchewan Province, it is evaluated as S3, indicating that it is easily removed (Saskatchewan Conservation Data Center 2011). COMM).