Midget Faded Rattlesnake Images

Midget Faded Rattlesnake Images, Facts and Information:

Crotalus oreganus concolor

• Midget Faded Rattlesnakes are pit vipers that are pinkish, pale brown, yellow-brown, straw-colored, reddish, or yellow-brown ground color, overlaid with a series of brown elliptical or rectangular dorsal blotches. However, most specimens are gray or silvery. In juveniles, the pattern is distinct, but becomes faded in adults, almost to the point where it is indistinguishable from the ground color.
• Midget Faded Rattlesnakes are found in the United States in the Colorado and Green River basins. This area covers southwestern Wyoming, Utah and extreme west-central Colorado.
• Midget Faded Rattlesnakes possess the most toxic venom of the C. oreganus / C. viridis group, although apparently considerable variability exists among local populations. It is even one of the most potent venoms found in North America.
• Midget Faded Rattlesnakes are found in appropriately rocky, cliffy habitats.
• Midget Faded Rattlesnakes eat small mammals, birds, lizards, and occasionally amphibians.
• Midget Faded Rattlesnakes are live-bearing. Females give birth to approximately four to twelve young in the late summer or fall.

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