{"id":2899,"date":"2026-07-06T04:44:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2026-07-06T04:44:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:44:39","slug":"mojave-rattlesnake-in-arizona-grassland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/mojave-rattlesnake-in-arizona-grassland\/","title":{"rendered":"Mojave Rattlesnake in Arizona Grassland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I saw this <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/viperidae\/rattlesnakes\/scutulatus\/scutulatus-scutulatus\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"148\">Mojave Rattlesnake<\/a> (<em>Crotalus scutulatus<\/em>) crossing a dirt road near the U.S.\/Mexican border a few years ago in mid-elevation semi-desert grassland. Several other species can be found in the same band o transitional habitat, including <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/viperidae\/rattlesnakes\/willardi\/willardi-willardi\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"164\">Arizona Ridgenosed Rattlesnakes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/viperidae\/rattlesnakes\/lepidus\/klauberi\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"162\">Banded Rock Rattlesnakes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/viperidae\/rattlesnakes\/atrox\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"146\">Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/viperidae\/rattlesnakes\/molossus\/molossus-molossus\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"150\">Blacktailed Rattlesnakes<\/a>. I escorted it off the road before it was killed by border patrol vehicles.<\/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-scutulatus-scutulatus-_6392-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-scutulatus-scutulatus-_6392-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-scutulatus-scutulatus-_6392-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-scutulatus-scutulatus-_6392-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-scutulatus-scutulatus-_6392-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-scutulatus-scutulatus-_6392-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this Mojave Rattlesnake (Crotalus scutulatus) crossing a dirt road near the U.S.\/Mexican border a few years ago in mid-elevation semi-desert grassland. Several other species can be found in the same band o transitional habitat, including Arizona Ridgenosed Rattlesnakes, Banded Rock Rattlesnakes, Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes, and Blacktailed Rattlesnakes. I escorted it off the road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136,147,148,135,139],"tags":[38,191,267,557],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rattlesnakes","category-scutulatus","category-scutulatus-scutulatus","category-snakes","category-viperidae","tag-arizona","tag-cochise-county","tag-sky-islands","tag-grassland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","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=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2901,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/2901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}