{"id":2134,"date":"2025-07-07T09:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2025-07-07T09:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:26:16","slug":"blacktailed-rattlesnake-at-night-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/blacktailed-rattlesnake-at-night-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blacktailed Rattlesnake At Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/viperidae\/rattlesnakes\/molossus\/molossus-molossus\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"150\">Blacktailed Rattlesnake<\/a> we found on a late night hike of a canyon near Phoenix, <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/arizona\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"38\">Arizona<\/a>. These are common snakes in mountainous regions, often seen by hikers. During the summer in desert areas, they are often most often <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/nocturnal\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"324\">nocturnal<\/a>, usually encountered around sunup and just after dark. This one, fortunately, lives far from where people may come across it on accident.<\/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-molossus-molossus-_0597-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-molossus-molossus-_0597-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-molossus-molossus-_0597-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-molossus-molossus-_0597-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-molossus-molossus-_0597-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-molossus-molossus-_0597-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Blacktailed Rattlesnake we found on a late night hike of a canyon near Phoenix, Arizona. These are common snakes in mountainous regions, often seen by hikers. During the summer in desert areas, they are often most often nocturnal, usually encountered around sunup and just after dark. This one, fortunately, lives far from where people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136,149,150,135,139],"tags":[14,38,324],"class_list":["post-2134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rattlesnakes","category-molossus","category-molossus-molossus","category-snakes","category-viperidae","tag-phoenix","tag-arizona","tag-nocturnal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134","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=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}