What type of Rattle snake is this? It's redish pink

[JustinNC]

Justin, good obversation...I can't tell the difference. They all look the same color to me, for the most part (red green deficiency blindness).   I did see some photos after a search yesterday showing some "red colored" WDB's...so idk. Is awful interesting the "pink" rattler was one that didn't get saved some how 

[El Destructo]

Pink rattler...


Wonder what it tastes like...? 

Taste like Schicken...............

[PeteC]

Looks like a Western Diamondback to me. JMHO  God Bless

[thomas h]

could he be sunburnt ::)www.google.com/search?q=red+rattelsnake

[stickbender]

Pink rattler...


Wonder what it tastes like...?     I'd guess quiche ! 


                                               Wayne   

[stickbender]

     Hey, Cipriano, did you read my PM ?


                                  Wayne

[Stretch]

It's most definitely a Western Diamondback.  The "coon tail" gives it away.  There can be some variation in the color in the species, but they all have the coon tail. 

[NTD]

It's most definitely a Western Diamondback.  The "coon tail" gives it away.  There can be some variation in the color in the species, but they all have the coon tail. 

While all normal phase WDB's have the banding, Mojaves, and Ruber's also have a "coon" tail.  Even some sidewinders can have a bit of that banding. But yeah, as Justin said this is a photo shopped western diamondback.

[Stretch]

It's most definitely a Western Diamondback.  The "coon tail" gives it away.  There can be some variation in the color in the species, but they all have the coon tail. 

While all normal phase WDB's have the banding, Mojaves, and Ruber's also have a "coon" tail.  Even some sidewinders can have a bit of that banding. But yeah, as Justin said this is a photo shopped western diamondback.

Yeah, there are other rattlesnakes with the coon tail, but you're not going to find a Mojave, Ruber, or Sidewinder in Brownwood, TX.  You see a coon tail in TX, and it's a Western Diamondback.  If it's not, you got yourself a paper to write. 

[NTD]

Good point

[Stretch]

Good point

One that was hammered into me by my Herpetology prof.    "Always check the range map before you look at the pictures Mark."      

[criveraville]

Thanks guys!!! Some of you are as funny as some of my first graders when I teach them the difference between new and knew by saying, "I got new choes."  It never gets old and they always laugh..

Y'all really think my buddy was messing with me?

PS... My students dad called me yesterday to tell me he got me a snake. I drove out to the dairy he works on and he had a 33 inch copperhead for me. That's without the head and minus 2 inches of the slim tail end 

[NTD]

That's one big copperhead.

[criveraville]

NTD,

Yes it is. I thought the 29 incher I sent Ken75 was big!! He used it and another copperhead skin I sent him and made a sweet little recurve with it that my son claimed. Ken's a gracious guy.. He's only done one copperhead bow a d he sent it to me  . Don't get any nicer than that. Sorry to hear you are having a dry spell up in Arizona. Last year I collected about 84 skins on my own. All road kill. This year I've gather close to 30. It's been a super year so far. I've traded em all and sold one in Nevada.

Do you go out and hunt them in the desert? I have gone out late at night and that's when I got that 29 inch copperhead. It was 2:30 in the morning. But gas being as high as it is, can't do that much.

If you're in a bind for skins PM me and we can work something out.

[thomas h]

seems like after our flood there are a lot of snakes here this year