{"id":2809,"date":"2026-06-03T04:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2026-06-03T04:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:01:36","slug":"a-mother-banded-rock-rattlesnake-looks-over-her-newborns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/a-mother-banded-rock-rattlesnake-looks-over-her-newborns\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mother Banded Rock Rattlesnake Looks Over Her Newborns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new mother <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/viperidae\/rattlesnakes\/lepidus\/klauberi\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"162\">Banded Rock Rattlesnake<\/a> oversees her newborn babies at a rock pile in southeastern <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/arizona\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"38\">Arizona<\/a>. This was during the monsoon season, when abundant moisture triggers the live birth of rattlesnakes. This mother stayed with the newborns until just after their first shed skin, at which point they all dispersed to surrounding habitat.<\/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-lepidus-klauberi-_4167150726-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-lepidus-klauberi-_4167150726-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-lepidus-klauberi-_4167150726-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-lepidus-klauberi-_4167150726-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-lepidus-klauberi-_4167150726-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-lepidus-klauberi-_4167150726-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new mother Banded Rock Rattlesnake oversees her newborn babies at a rock pile in southeastern Arizona. This was during the monsoon season, when abundant moisture triggers the live birth of rattlesnakes. This mother stayed with the newborns until just after their first shed skin, at which point they all dispersed to surrounding habitat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136,162,161,135,139],"tags":[309,768,106,191],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rattlesnakes","category-klauberi","category-lepidus","category-snakes","category-viperidae","tag-neonate","tag-motherhood","tag-babies","tag-cochise-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809","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=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2811,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions\/2811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}