Thursday, May 1, I found myself among 20 state conservation officer trainees, walking into the woods toward a known population of timber rattlesnakes ... the snakes and determined their sex by ...

the trainees measured the snakes and determined their sex by counting the subcaudal scales. These are large, flat scales on the underside of a timber rattlesnake between the vent (anal scale ...

A question some members of the panel and the public want to know is the actual timber rattlesnake population in Massachusetts. "How do we go about counting the number of snakes?" a Ware resident ...

Parts of south-central Indiana are also home to the timber rattlesnake, another venomous ... which makes them hard to count accurately. It’s hard to get solid numbers. They are found in high ...

the trainees measured the snakes and determined their sex by counting the subcaudal scales. These are large, flat scales on the underside of a timber rattlesnake between the vent (anal scale ...