The precise location of the den in Colorado is being kept secret to prevent the reptiles being disturbed.
A “mega den” of hundreds of rattlesnakes in Colorado is getting even bigger now that late summer is here and babies are being born.
The public can watch too on the Project RattleCam website and help with important work including how to tell the snakes apart.Since researchers put their remote camera online in May, several snakes have become known in a chatroom and to scientists by names including Woodstock, Thea and Agent 008. The adults protect and lend body heat to pups from birth until they enter hibernation in mid-autumn, said Max Roberts, a CalPoly graduate student researcher.
They range across nearly all states and are especially common in the south west. The ones being studied are prairie rattlesnakes, which can be found in much of the central and western US and into Canada and Mexico.
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