What's Inside A Rattlesnake's Tail?

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If you look inside a rattlesnake rattle, you’ll find it’s actually hollow. Instead of shaking loose bits like a maraca to make that famous sound, rattlesnakes clack together segments of keratin — the same material found in your fingernails. They use three shaker muscles to vibrate the tips of their tails up to 90 times a second, which is many times faster than you can blink!

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What's Inside A Rattlesnake's Tail?

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0:03 still better than the sounds of a mosquito

jnd

When they cut the rattle thingy in half it made those *satisfying* crunchy noises. I never felt so disgusted in my life

lorie

And this kids is why I don't go outside.

*ever*

syylizz

That blinking comparison was so random and useless

emcdavee

That's not a rattle snake, that's a shakey snake

FingeringThings

Yes let's compare a human's normal blinking rate to a rattle snake's 90 rattles per second.

Hugo-lmed

If you ever hear one in person, it’s truly terrifying!

jaddenmp

What's inside a rattlesnake's tail?

Rice.

SaucyTatertot

So they literally evolved their tails into warning signals for other creatures to back off. They just wanted to live a perhaps quiet life.

Yeah, as you have guessed. *_Killer Queen has already touched the read more button._*

notgalvatron

It can shake its tale 90 times per second. Just for comparison's sake, it takes the earth a full year to revolve around the sun.

QTP

Why would you compare the vibration of 90x a second to a human blinking about 20 times a minute? Makes no sense. Like 2000rpm compared to a grandmother groceryshopping 4 times a month.

koningkont

I used to work in a horse vet hospital. We got this one horse that got bit on the nose by a rattlesnake. His face swelled up massively, including his eyelids. It was touch & go for weeks, but it eventually survived.

dafttool

I had a rattlesnake just outside my back door a few weeks ago. I didn't know it until I started to step out. It caught me off guard when it rattled to warn me. It scared the breath out of me! Good thing it wasn't a baby rattlesnake...I could have been bitten! 😟😱

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