When the rattlesnake bites, muscles on the sides of the venom glands contract, which squeezes the venom through the ducts and into the fangs.
Skunks, cotton rats, burrowing owls, pine snakes and rattlesnakes, can be found living in abandoned armadillo burrows.
Wildlife includes rattlesnakes and pronghorn on the grass-covered lower elevations and deer and black bear higher up.
Reptiles such as the garter snakes and rattlesnakes inhabit the zone.
Bird species include eagles, owls and buzzards and reptiles include rattlesnakes and chameleons.
Two venomous snakes, the copperhead and timber rattlesnake, live in the park, but they do not bother unless provoked.
Its way of dealing with those who offended its discipline was to put rattlesnakes through their letterboxes after cutting off the rattle!
To me this is taking a flyswat to deal with a nest of rattlesnakes.
