{"id":2695,"date":"2026-04-01T07:38:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2026-04-01T07:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:38:08","slug":"white-speckled-rattlesnake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/white-speckled-rattlesnake\/","title":{"rendered":"White Speckled Rattlesnake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/pyrrhus\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"433\">Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnakes<\/a> (<em>Crotalus pyrrhus<\/em>) are some of the most <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/crypsis\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"485\">cryptic<\/a> snakes in the country. This white one isn&#8217;t an albino, but is showing off its natural color against the white granite in the environment where it lives.<\/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-pyrrhus-_3366-Enhanced-Edit-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus-_3366-Enhanced-Edit-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus-_3366-Enhanced-Edit-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus-_3366-Enhanced-Edit-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus-_3366-Enhanced-Edit-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus-_3366-Enhanced-Edit-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnakes (Crotalus pyrrhus) are some of the most cryptic snakes in the country. This white one isn&#8217;t an albino, but is showing off its natural color against the white granite in the environment where it lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136,145,135,139],"tags":[485,197,375],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rattlesnakes","category-pyrrhus","category-snakes","category-viperidae","tag-crypsis","tag-camouflage","tag-yuma-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695","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=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}