{"id":2420,"date":"2025-12-08T08:51:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2025-12-08T08:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:54:22","slug":"western-diamondback-rattlesnake-staying-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/western-diamondback-rattlesnake-staying-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Diamondback Rattlesnake Staying Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Western Diamondback Rattlesnake in ambush in a sandy wash on a very hot night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This sand is much cooler than the surrounding rock, with smaller particles that lose energy more quickly. While it&#8217;s easy to think of reptiles as ectotherms always looking for sources of heat, they&#8217;re just as often looking for ways to lose it. Thermoregulating is more like a behavioral thermostat, and areas like this help.<\/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-atrox_O4A9868-1-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-atrox_O4A9868-1-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-atrox_O4A9868-1-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-atrox_O4A9868-1-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-atrox_O4A9868-1-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-atrox_O4A9868-1-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Western Diamondback Rattlesnake in ambush in a sandy wash on a very hot night. This sand is much cooler than the surrounding rock, with smaller particles that lose energy more quickly. While it&#8217;s easy to think of reptiles as ectotherms always looking for sources of heat, they&#8217;re just as often looking for ways to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[146,136,135,139],"tags":[192,387,445,472],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atrox","category-rattlesnakes","category-snakes","category-viperidae","tag-ambush","tag-western-diamondback-rattlesnake","tag-thermoregulation","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","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=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2423,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions\/2423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}