My friend and I recently participated in a venom study regarding range variations in venom composition from C. Scutulatus (Mojave's Rattlesnakes) from a particular area in Southeast Arizona performed by Wolfgang Wuster, a world renowned herpitologist and snake venom biologist (more on Wolfgang can be found here:
Dr Wolfgang Wüster | School of Biological Sciences | Bangor University ). Last night we set out to release some of the specimens we found and I snapped a few pics. All were released without injury, trauma, and in close approximate to the gps location in where they were found. In fact they shook out hand and thanked us kindly for the experience that they wold tell all their friends about.
One of three neonates we released:
Biggest one we had out of five adults, just under 5ft and very happy:
Two more, the one on the left had the largest venom yield recorded by Wolfgang at over 600mls (typical C. Scutulatus yield is around 300mls):
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