SSSSSSSSnakes!!!! in the gallery

[Davis2001R6]

Funny, Jen just got an email with those same 4 pictures of the snakes. Says they were out on a Mothers Day hike near Tucson.

[Trishness]

[sacred_datura]

I read a book about snakes in Australia where a similar thing occurred. Basically the snakes had to adapt because their prey adapted to the venom. Interesting stuff!

[oliverr99]

Well, at least we know where all of the rattle snakes are, phew! (At least for now)
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[azbackpackr]

OK guys. Enough already. Snopes.com has not yet picked this up, but obviously it's some sort of a hoax. I just got an email forwarded to me that says it was near Riverton, Utah. That some family was out on a spring day hike and saw this. There were two photos included, one showed more of the hillside. Did not look like Tucson at all. I don't know where Riverton is, so can't comment.

[mike]

According to this article, they were taken in Riverton, Wyoming.
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[Suz]

[IGO]

3 different breeds of rattlesnake didn't come out of that one hole. I maintain that somebody dumped there rattlesnake collection on the dirt and snapped away.
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[Shawn]

There's a story that persists in WY of a huge ball of snakes uncoverd when the interstate highway was being built there.
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[ChefTIO]

http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/WATCHBLOG/25601

Fake snakes bite Internet hikers
An Internet predator has put the bite on Arizona hikers with photos of a rattlesnake nest at Apache Lake.

The photos of a pit of writhing rattlers are graphic, disturbing and fake.

The same photos have slithered their way across the Internet and have been seen in Nevada, Utah and Colorado. They all come with a warning about where the rattlers are supposed to be, along with stern cautions about staying away. They virtually guarantee that some intrepid suburban adventurer will take the family out in the 4x4 to see the snakes.

The Apache Lake photos showed up on the computer screen of Becky Drew of Kearny.

“Here are those pics that I wanted to send you. Let your friends from work that are going up to the lake this weekend know about this and tell them that it was over by Turtle Island so they know not to go up there,” the accompanying warning said.

The five photos show the nest in a dirt bowl near a slope in desert terrain. The photos are shot from a distance and then get closer. There are enough snakes in the photo to make Indiana Jones queasy. It is hard to tell if the photo is real or if the snakes are digitally imposed.

But one thing's certain: These snakes are getting around.

The same photo duped a blogger near Reno, Nev., into posting directions to the supposed nest. The person who sent them later reported that the photos had been sent to her as a practical joke. Some joke. She said the photos were really from an unknown site in southern Colorado.

That was news to other Internet snake hunters, who said they were told the pictures came from Utah. Another said they were from Florence, Ariz.

And that brings us back to Apache Lake. No one questions there are rattlesnakes lurking in the desert scrub, under rocks and inside bolt holes. You need to take care when hiking, wear thick shoes and be attentive. If you hear the unmistakable sound of a rattle, back away slowly.

[GTG]

To me it looks like a den of rattlers emerging on a warm spring day. Different types will den together during the cold months. They will emerge briefly as the weather warms and then retreat again at night from what I understand. This is NOT a mating thing, that happens in summer and typically between two snakes, not an orgy like this.

Some of the post from readers in the Repulic page were funny -

[wanderingsoul]

[azbackpackr]

Last time I received an email about those same photos it said they were taken on May 20 in Oracle AZ. Funny how those hills and snakes look exactly the same in all those different states!

Snopes hasn't yet picked it up, though.

[Suz]

just got it again in my email this time it said Rancho Santa Fe Subdivision near Kingman, AZ.....nice!

[wanderingsoul]

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