{"id":1525,"date":"2024-10-27T05:30:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T12:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2024-10-27T05:30:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T12:30:46","slug":"twin-spotted-rattlesnake-in-high-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/twin-spotted-rattlesnake-in-high-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin-Spotted Rattlesnake In High Places"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rattlesnakes live in the highest areas of Arizona, often taking forms that defy what most residents would think possible. This one, an adult Twin-Spotted Rattlesnake (<em>Crotalus pricei<\/em>), is only about 20&#8243; long as a mature adult, with a narrow head, tiny rattle, and body pattern that convergently looks just like a harmless nightsnake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are one of the four species of rattlesnakes in Arizona that are protected by law from any kind of disturbance, thankfully.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1814\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pricei_5444-Edit-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Twin-Spotted Rattlesnake In High Places\" title=\"Twin-Spotted Rattlesnake In High Places\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pricei_5444-Edit-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pricei_5444-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pricei_5444-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pricei_5444-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pricei_5444-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pricei_5444-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rattlesnakes live in the highest areas of Arizona, often taking forms that defy what most residents would think possible. This one, an adult Twin-Spotted Rattlesnake (Crotalus pricei), is only about 20&#8243; long as a mature adult, with a narrow head, tiny rattle, and body pattern that convergently looks just like a harmless nightsnake. These are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136,166,135,139],"tags":[38,266,267],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rattlesnakes","category-pricei","category-snakes","category-viperidae","tag-arizona","tag-graham-county","tag-sky-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}