this is really cool I live on the Mojave desert and killed over a 100 rattlers but haven t seen this before great video and experience in the desert we have apportunities to see of hand the nature in action and people who comment animation grow up and learn that nature is no video game and throw it may not look real it is on fact very real
Wow this footage is AMAZING! We have the red racers here in my town (in Southern California) so I came on RU-vid to find video of them, never thought Id come across anything this good. This is National Geographic type quality lol seriously. Thank you for uploading and sharing it with us!
This is exactly why I let the beautiful pink coachwhip live that was in my garden today. I also have huge western diamondbacks living in my yard. I’m in the high desert of Texas. Snakes are bad this year.
I know somebody else probably pointed this out besides me by now considering this video is old. But yes that is a juvenile western diamondback rattlesnake or (Crotalus atrox) & the species you are calling a red racer is actually called a western Coachwhip or (Masticophis flagellum) Not a whip snake .. Whip snakes are a different species from the Coachwhip people confuse them all the time but they are separate species. Although they are closely related they are still a separate species.
Taylor Delma the red whip snake is not poisonous and usually they're pretty docile snake kind of like garden snakes so it is unusual that it went after this baby rattler
Neither one of them are poisonous you can eat both of them and they will not poison you although the western diamondback on the other hand is venomous if it bites you. And that is not a red whip snake the correct name for the snake is a western Coachwhip they come in a variety of coloration patterns in there found from Western Texas all the way to California some are even pink some are gray some are tan and some are even Brown..
@@robinbenderknight8255 Nobody said you were lying. If you knew rattlesnakes, you would know that baby rattlers do not have any rattles, this one has several. I have seen and caught baby rattlers that were 3 inches long.
@@robinbenderknight8255 I think you're right. I just read western diamondbacks are 10 inches long when born and have 2 "pre-buttons" which don't rattle. The 3 inch long babies I saw were in Louisiana, most likely timber rattlers, which are smaller.
k3n c thank you for acknowledging your mistake I appreciate that and looking up that info, aside from that, I do hope you enjoyed the video! Take care, God bless and stay safe!😊
Thank you ladies... this is excellent-excellent footage... once in a lifetime lucky opportunity and you KNEW what to do...! -- Nicole Slater said it right "National Geographic quality - GREAT job. I copied this video to my Channel/Playlist of *Rattlesnake Herpetology* - Filed under *Rattlesnake Victim of Predation* Please visit my Channel, subscribe and comment - tks, jd
