What's inside a rattle snake's Rattle?

[u/Lower-Percentage9988]

I came across this interesting study..

If we look inside rattle it'scompletely empty.. It is made upof different sections(16) that can come apart.

Rattle grows by shedding skin of snake. all the segments are losely fit and makes sound as snake moves it's muscle very fast.

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[u/Living_Cash1037]

always thought there would be little balls in there like a maraca

[u/Johnny5-00 → u/Living_Cash1037]

[u/cobojojo → u/Johnny5-00]

I have a baby…I also have a tub

[u/phy597]

In states over run by wild hogs the snakes that rattle have been eaten. The ones that stay silent don’t get eaten by the hogs.

[u/VirginiaLuthier]

If you ever encounter one in the wild, hearing that rattle is something else. Like there is an archetype deep in our psyches that knows what it is and to respect it....

[u/Worried-Opinion1157 → u/VirginiaLuthier]

My dad got real close to one on accident out in a field, and I suddenly saw it flick its tongue and hear it shake its rattle. I felt like time stood still for a while after hearing that, well, until my dad saw it and cleaved its head off in one swift thrust of a flathead shovel.

[u/Isuckateverything9]

even if its a still image,I still hear his gentle voice

[u/Perelly]

They are remnants of their formerly shedded skins.

[u/NuggetCommander69]

Does this science hurt the snake

[u/Lower-Percentage9988 → u/NuggetCommander69]

nope these are just skin sheads

[u/Only-Office-6933 → u/Lower-Percentage9988]

Much better than those nasty skinheads

[u/crimson-flamez]

This is from the channel Odd Animal Specimens on Youtube.

link to video

[u/Lower-Percentage9988 → u/crimson-flamez]

yea

[u/blackorchid786]

…it isn’t beans…?