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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Desertau, post: 9956666, member: 86775&quot;]No, but I really need one of those for my precious… ha, lol. Seriously, that cobra looks all business.</p><p><br /></p><p>I meet his relatives every once in a while one day in the Arizona desert it was late afternoon I was detecting around this bit of sage brush and I kept hearing the sound of garden rain birds, that’s what it sounded with my headphones on rain bird sprinklers off in the distance. I pulled the headphones off and quickly looking down realized there was a big pissed off green Mohave Rattler&nbsp; coiled at my feet. When I saw what it was I made an Olympic long jump backwards in less than a millisecond these things are deadly, it left me jumpy the rest of the afternoon.</p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>Crotalus scutulatus</b></i> is known commonly as the <b>Mohave Rattlesnake</b>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus#cite_note-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus#cite_note-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus#cite_note-:0-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus#cite_note-:0-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a> Other common English names include <b>Mojave Rattlesnake</b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus#cite_note-Stebbins-5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus#cite_note-Stebbins-5" rel="nofollow">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus#cite_note-C&amp;L04-6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus#cite_note-C&amp;L04-6" rel="nofollow">[6]</a> and, referring specifically to the nominate (northern) subspecies: Northern Mohave Rattlesnake<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus#cite_note-:0-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus#cite_note-:0-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a> and Mojave Green Rattlesnake</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>Venom</b></font></p><p><font size="4"><b>History</b></font></p><p>For decades, the bite of <i>C. scutulatus</i> has been considered to be extraordinarily deadly, often described as the (or “one of the”) deadliest or most dangerous rattlesnakes. For example: &quot;the most lethal of the North American rattlesnake venoms&quot;;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus#cite_note-24" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus#cite_note-24" rel="nofollow">[24]</a> &quot;one of the most lethal venoms among the world&#039;s reptiles&quot;;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus#cite_note-25" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus#cite_note-25" rel="nofollow">[25]</a> &quot;an extremely dangerous snake&quot;;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus#cite_note-Stebbins-5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus#cite_note-Stebbins-5" rel="nofollow">[5]</a> &quot;probably the most dangerous snake in the United States&quot;;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus#cite_note-26" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus#cite_note-26" rel="nofollow">[26]</a> and “considered among the most venomous snakes on Earth”[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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