{"id":1974,"date":"2025-04-16T07:17:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2025-04-16T07:17:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:17:37","slug":"mojave-rattlesnake-stayin-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/mojave-rattlesnake-stayin-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Mojave Rattlesnake Stayin Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A young Mojave Rattlesnake at rest, lifted just off the surface of the warm sand to get a little air flow. Thermoregulation is far from just &#8220;sunning&#8221; \u2013 much of the activity of reptiles in the desert during the summer is about getting cooler, rather than warmer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-scutulatus-scutulatus_6592140822-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-scutulatus-scutulatus_6592140822-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-scutulatus-scutulatus_6592140822-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-scutulatus-scutulatus_6592140822-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-scutulatus-scutulatus_6592140822-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-scutulatus-scutulatus_6592140822-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young Mojave Rattlesnake at rest, lifted just off the surface of the warm sand to get a little air flow. Thermoregulation is far from just &#8220;sunning&#8221; \u2013 much of the activity of reptiles in the desert during the summer is about getting cooler, rather than warmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136,147,148,135,139],"tags":[445],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rattlesnakes","category-scutulatus","category-scutulatus-scutulatus","category-snakes","category-viperidae","tag-thermoregulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","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=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1976,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/1976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}