tropical rattlesnake
- Scientific name:
Crotalus durissus
It is a crotalino whose body is robust, laterally compressed and ventrally flattened, at the end of the tail it has a rattle (rattle) made up of rings keratin horny
tropical rattlesnake
- Crotalus durissus
It is a crotalino whose body is robust, laterally compressed and ventrally
flattened, at the end of the tail it has a rattle (rattle) made up of rings
keratin horns.
• Light walnut brown ground color, with a series of rhombuses, with a dorsal median major axis,
darker than the background and delimited by whitish scales.
• It grows to a maximum length, about 1.8 m.
• It has solenoglyphous teeth (poison-inoculating fangs), that is, it is a species
poisonous.
Reproduction:
• It is an ovoviviparous species, that is, the young are born from eggs that are incubated in the
inside of the mother
• At the age of two, females are ready to mate.
• Females of some species have the ability to store sperm
during a period of eight months before the start of pregnancy.
Feeding:
• It feeds mainly on small mammals such as rats, mice, squirrels, and may
occasionally include larger prey and sometimes consumes lizards.
Distribution:
• Found from Mexico to Costa Rica, including Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras
and Nicaragua.
• There are many separate populations in South America such as: Colombia, Venezuela,
Guyana, Suriname, Guyana, eastern Brazil, southeastern Peru Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay,
northern and central Argentina.
• Locality is type "America".
Zoo Vida Exótica en Baños de Agua Santa Rules
- Do not feed the animals.
- Keep your hands out of the cages.
- No pictures with FLASH.
- Do not catch the animals.
- Do not throw objects inside the cages.