Colorado’s Rattlesnake Mega Den Is Active Again and You Can See All 2,000 Snakes at Once

Need To Know

• Project RattleCam started a livestream of a rattlesnake "mega den" successful 2024, and present the watercourse is backmost for 2025

• The hundreds of rattlesnakes successful the den, located successful Colorado, are progressive again aft months of wintertime hibernation

• The livestream allows researchers to show the rattlesnakes and gives carnal lovers a accidental to spot the reptiles up close.

The RattleCam is backmost arsenic implicit 2,000 snakes statesman to look from hibernation.

The livestream was acceptable up successful 2024 done a collaboration betwixt scientists from California Polytechnic State University, Central Coast Snake Services, and Dickinson College successful Pennsylvania, according to USA Today.

RattleCam gives viewers a peek astatine the hundreds of chaotic rattlesnakes surviving successful a "mega den" astatine an undisclosed portion of backstage spot successful Colorado. After hibernating for respective months, the den's snakes are starting to look to shed their skins and soak up the sun.

Many of the pistillate rattlesnakes successful the Colorado den are believed to beryllium large and volition apt walk the warmer months giving commencement and tending to their young, according to the Project RattleCam website.

Owen Bachhuber, a California Polytechnic State University postgraduate pupil and subordinate of the Project RattleCam team, said researchers expect the mega den's snakes to go progressive again passim May.

Bacchhuber told USA Today that the determination of the Colorado den volition stay undisclosed to support the snakes.

The mega den's unrecorded watercourse began successful Spring 2024 and rapidly gained 2.5 cardinal views, reaching 180,000 viewers a time successful immoderate cases.

Bacchhuber and his colleagues usage the livestream to survey the rattlesnakes and to "show them disconnected to everyone astir the world," Bacchhuber told Axios Denver.

The RattleCam squad captures the livestream by taking turns manually operating a tripod passim the day. Donations marque the task imaginable and are needed present much than ever, with "the national authorities is cutting subject [funding] successful each spot it can," Bacchhuber added.

Bacchhuber and different researchers support managing the watercourse amusive by naming dozens of snakes from the mega den. One of the snakes is named Lasagna due to the fact that of her identifiable diagnostic of folding her assemblage "like a large cookware of lasagna."

Twitchy is different snake who is considered "a ladies man" due to the fact that helium "love[s] to enactment connected a show" for the females and gets fidgety successful their presence.

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The pistillate mega den snakes transportation their young for 3 to 4 months earlier delivering betwixt 8 and 17 babies. RattleCam volition stay progressive astatine the den passim the birthing season, truthful carnal lovers volition person a front-row spot to the accomplishment of each the caller mega den members.

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