{"id":2665,"date":"2026-03-15T16:05:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2665"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:06:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:06:56","slug":"nosed-horned-viper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/nosed-horned-viper\/","title":{"rendered":"Nosed-horned Viper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of many <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/viperidae\/vipera\/ammodytes\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"270\">Nose-horned Vipers<\/a> (<em>Vipera ammodytes<\/em>) we found in Greece a few years ago. This one is about to shed its skin in coming days, indicated by the clouded eye scale.<\/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\/Vipera-ammodytes_1173-Enhanced-Edit-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vipera-ammodytes_1173-Enhanced-Edit-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vipera-ammodytes_1173-Enhanced-Edit-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vipera-ammodytes_1173-Enhanced-Edit-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vipera-ammodytes_1173-Enhanced-Edit-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vipera-ammodytes_1173-Enhanced-Edit-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of many Nose-horned Vipers (Vipera ammodytes) we found in Greece a few years ago. This one is about to shed its skin in coming days, indicated by the clouded eye scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[270,135,269,139],"tags":[184,730],"class_list":["post-2665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ammodytes","category-snakes","category-vipera","category-viperidae","tag-greece","tag-shed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665","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=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2667,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions\/2667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}