Watch hundreds of rattlesnakes come out of 'mega den' ahead of new Pennsylvania webcam

The radical down the popular RattleCam livestreams, which showcase hundreds of rattlesnakes successful California and Colorado, are expanding east.

In April, researchers with Project RattleCam commenced its "mega den" bluish Colorado livestream for the 2nd year, allowing anyone to ticker the reptilian net stars arsenic they travel retired of wintertime hibernation. The California livestream, which debuted successful 2021, is expected to resume sometime this summer.

After precocious achieving the much funding, a caller livestream successful Pennsylvania volition apt debut successful the outpouring of 2026, according to Owen Bachhuber, a California Polytechnic State University postgraduate pupil who helps tally Project RattleCam. The caller camera has the anticipation of showcasing different types of snakes, similar copperheads, arsenic good arsenic antithetic animals similar achromatic bears.

"We privation everyone to beryllium capable to spot what would a snake that mightiness unrecorded adjacent them beryllium doing, and truthful that's portion of the entreaty of the Pennsylvania camera to springiness practice to the radical retired successful the east," Bachhuber told USA TODAY connected May 13. "We're hoping to proceed to broaden the scope of the RattleCam and its impact."

Bachhuber said the task continues to amended the nationalist astir the snakes, including young students who observe the livestream successful subject classes nether a recently published curriculum. Researchers person already begun to enactment fascinating facts done the Colorado livestream, which volition showcase hundreds of rattlesnakes emerging from an undisclosed backstage property.

"Notably, determination were a mates of snakes who had beauteous terrible injuries, similar missing tails oregon caput wounds oregon large scars. We've really seen those snakes travel retired of hibernation each healed up, truthful that's been truly encouraging for us," helium added.

What is Project RattleCam?

Project RattleCam examines the the societal dynamics of the snakes done their unsocial standard patterns and aims to situation a longtime antagonistic stigma toward rattlesnakes.

Scientists from California Polytechnic State University, Dickinson College successful Pennsylvania and Central Coast Snake Services person partnered to make Project RattleCam. Its archetypal livestream launched successful summertime 2021 on the cardinal seashore of California.

The nonstop determination of the den analyzable are withheld for the snakes' safety, according to Bachhuber.

Where to ticker the rattlesnakes livestream

Both rattlesnake livestreams are disposable connected RattleCam.org and connected Project RattleCam's YouTube channel, though lone the Colorado provender is moving arsenic of May 13.

• Coming later: The California Rattlesnake Rookery Livestream, which ran past year from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. each time from July done October.

How galore radical ticker rattlesnakes livestream?

Project RattleCam's Colorado livestream lured more than 2.5 cardinal views successful its debut twelvemonth of 2024, adjacent reaching implicit 180,000 viewers successful 1 day, Bacchuber said.

Contributing: Erin Udell and Mike Snider, USA TODAY NETWORK

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