{"id":3073,"date":"2026-10-19T13:48:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2026-10-19T13:48:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:48:40","slug":"the-arizona-state-reptile-arizona-ridgenosed-rattlesnake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/the-arizona-state-reptile-arizona-ridgenosed-rattlesnake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arizona State Reptile &#8211; Arizona Ridgenosed Rattlesnake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arizona has a state reptile that most people will never see, and relatively few know it exists. The Arizona Ridgenosed Rattlesnake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Arizona Ridgenosed Rattlesnake from the southeastern corner of Arizona. They&#8217;re small rattlesnakes, with most that I&#8217;ve encountered being less than two feet long. They&#8217;re not in the desert, but live in higher elevation oak forests and grassy hills. Even in areas where they are abundant, life-long locals usually greet questions about them with something that sounds like &#8220;a what?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s one we found awhile back in Cochise County, Arizona. <\/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-willardi-willardi-_4640150815-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-willardi-willardi-_4640150815-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-willardi-willardi-_4640150815-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-willardi-willardi-_4640150815-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-willardi-willardi-_4640150815-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-willardi-willardi-_4640150815-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona has a state reptile that most people will never see, and relatively few know it exists. The Arizona Ridgenosed Rattlesnake. An Arizona Ridgenosed Rattlesnake from the southeastern corner of Arizona. They&#8217;re small rattlesnakes, with most that I&#8217;ve encountered being less than two feet long. They&#8217;re not in the desert, but live in higher elevation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136,135,139,163,164],"tags":[38,191,671,738],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rattlesnakes","category-snakes","category-viperidae","category-willardi","category-willardi-willardi","tag-arizona","tag-cochise-county","tag-woodland","tag-state-reptile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","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=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3075,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions\/3075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}