The Pigmy Rattlesnake Photo gallery

• This is a pigmy rattlesnake (S. m. miliarius) from the Savannah River site in South Carolina (245 kb).
• This pigmy climbed about four feet above the ground where it shed its skin in a mass of grape vines (75 kb; photo T.M. Farrell).
• This pigmy fell off a palm frond, and got caught by its rattle (95 kb).
• This is a massasauga, the closest relative of the pigmy rattlesnake (217 kb).
• Here is a snake with an unusual color pattern (76 kb).
• This is one of the PIT-tags used to mark our snakes (105 kb)

• A hammock (wet forested area) in central Florida that is home to many pigmy rattlesnakes (172 kb).
• These hammocks become flooded in the wet season (Fall; 170 kb).

• A close-up of the head showing fangs (69 kb).
• A close-up of two pigmies' tails showing how they change color as the snakes age (88 kb).
• A close-up of a long rattle chain (68 kb)
• The rattle of a young rapidly growing snake (63 kb; photo J. Rybinski).
• The rattle of an old, slowly growing snake (77 kb; photo J. Rybinski).
• The rattle of a snake that is mute. Like many pigmy rattlesnakes it has no loose segments (77 kb; photo J. Rybinski).

• A adult male in contact with an adult female (139 kb).
• A pair of copulating pigmy rattlesnakes (130 kb).
• A young snake coiled next to a quarter (136 kb).
• A newborn pigmy coiled next to its mother (262 kb).

• Here is a snake in a typical foraging coil (189 kb).
• Here is a lizard that was struck but wasn't found by the snake (105 kb).
• This is the last thing a lizard might see before getting bit (84 kb; photo T.M. Farrell).
• This young pigmy is eating a ribbon snake (63 kb).
• Another young snake that is stuffed after eating a ribbon snake (95 kb).
• This snake is showing the typical posture young snakes use when they lure prey (69 kb).
• Another young snake luring (69 kb).
• A dissected pigmy with a big centipede in its stomach (119 kb).