Rattle+Snake

=Rattle Snake= //Crotalus horridus horridus//

The timber rattlesnake (//Crotalus horridus//) was one of the first New World animals to capture the imagination and attention of European explorers and naturalists. Though the 16 genera and 144 species of pit vipers (subfamily Crotalinae, family Viperidae) has a worldwide distribution, several genera, including //Crotalus//, are strictly New World animals. With their large, [|recurved fangs] (capable of injecting a fairly large amount of venom), wide pre-colonial distribution, and their trademark tail appendage, rattlesnakes were viewed with awe, fascination, and loathing; typically a combination of all three emotions. Things have not changed much in the past three hundred years. http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/rattlesn.html

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