Baby timber rattlesnake found in Arizona, as far as 2,500 miles from home

📆 15.12.2021 00:33:00

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📆 15.12.2021 00:33:00
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The snake was not released into the wild but will be used as part of an educational outreach program.

, before it was captured by Marissa Maki of Rattlesnake Solutions, an Arizona-based snake removal and rattlesnake control company."After getting a better look, I was able to identify it as a timber rattlesnake, which I had never seen before," Maki said."I lost my mind a little. I'm pretty sure those people thought I was crazy. I was so excited and started asking a lot of questions about their business to narrow down how it got there.

"It probably happens more than we know," Hughes said."There are things that come along shipping lines, but this is the first rattlesnake we caught." He said it is unlikely that a timber rattlesnake would survive in the wild because of Arizona's climate. However, invasive species have thrived in other regions of the country.

A baby timber rattlesnake managed to make its way across the country to Arizona. Above, a photo of a timber rattlesnake.

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