{"id":2537,"date":"2026-02-04T06:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2026-02-04T06:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:22:08","slug":"arizona-black-rattlesnake-at-night-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/viperidae\/rattlesnakes\/arizona-black-rattlesnake-at-night-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Black Rattlesnake at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/viperidae\/rattlesnakes\/cerberus\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"159\">Arizona Black Rattlesnake<\/a> we spotted on a late-night search near Phoenix. These higher-elevation snakes are common in the central <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/arizona\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"38\">Arizona<\/a>, where they are often misidentified as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/viperidae\/rattlesnakes\/horridus\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"389\">Timber<\/a> Rattlesnake&#8221;, though no timber rattlesnakes live anywhere in the Western US.<\/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-cerberus_4926-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-cerberus_4926-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-cerberus_4926-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-cerberus_4926-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-cerberus_4926-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-cerberus_4926-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Arizona Black Rattlesnake we spotted on a late-night search near Phoenix. These higher-elevation snakes are common in the central Arizona, where they are often misidentified as &#8220;Timber Rattlesnake&#8221;, though no timber rattlesnakes live anywhere in the Western US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[159,136,139],"tags":[683,684],"class_list":["post-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cerberus","category-rattlesnakes","category-viperidae","tag-high-elevation","tag-mogollon-rim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537","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=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2539,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions\/2539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}