{"id":8038,"date":"2026-02-21T16:04:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/?p=8038"},"modified":"2025-12-02T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:05:07","slug":"weird-western-diamondback-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/snake-removal\/weird-western-diamondback-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird Western Diamondback Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wow! It&#8217;s that same mutation as the odd Western Diamondback Rattlesnake we caught in Scottsdale a few months back that made national news. This one was found about 10 miles away, within the same historic watershed. It was relocated to carefully selected microhabitat suitable for the species and area. Here&#8217;s a link to a story about the other one: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/this-eye-catching-rattlesnake-found-in-arizona-has-unusual-leopard-spots-likely-from-a-genetic-mutation-180986641\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/this-eye-catching-rattlesnake-found-in-arizona-has-unusual-leopard-spots-likely-from-a-genetic-mutation-180986641\/<\/a> And no, it&#8217;s not a hybrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5520-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5520-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5520-666x533.jpg 666w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5520-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5520.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! It&#8217;s that same mutation as the odd Western Diamondback Rattlesnake we caught in Scottsdale a few months back that made national news. This one was found about 10 miles away, within the same historic watershed. It was relocated to carefully selected microhabitat suitable for the species and area. Here&#8217;s a link to a story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[116,8],"class_list":["post-8038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snake-removal","tag-arizona-snake-removal","tag-snake-removal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8040,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038\/revisions\/8040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}