{"id":3089,"date":"2026-10-24T07:28:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T14:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=3089"},"modified":"2026-10-24T07:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T14:28:30","slug":"arizona-black-rattlesnake-from-western-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/arizona-black-rattlesnake-from-western-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Black Rattlesnake From Western Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is one of a couple of <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/viperidae\/rattlesnakes\/cerberus\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"159\">Arizona Black Rattlesnakes<\/a> (<em>Crotalus cerberus<\/em>) we found in the Hualapai Mountains near the western extent of their range. These snakes in this area can be highly variable, ranging in appearance from the typical black rattlesnake look to lighter, blotchy patterns that hint at possible influence by others in the Western Rattlesnake clade. This one is a bit of both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/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-cerberus-_4271150801-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-cerberus-_4271150801-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-cerberus-_4271150801-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-cerberus-_4271150801-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-cerberus-_4271150801-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-cerberus-_4271150801-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of a couple of Arizona Black Rattlesnakes (Crotalus cerberus) we found in the Hualapai Mountains near the western extent of their range. These snakes in this area can be highly variable, ranging in appearance from the typical black rattlesnake look to lighter, blotchy patterns that hint at possible influence by others in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[159,136,135,139],"tags":[272,831],"class_list":["post-3089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cerberus","category-rattlesnakes","category-snakes","category-viperidae","tag-mohave-county","tag-hualapai-mountains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089","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=3089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3091,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions\/3091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}