Watch hundreds of rattlesnakes in a 'mega-den' from the safety of your computer

A caller live-streaming webcam allows viewers to spot wrong a alleged "mega-den" - location to hundreds of rattlesnakes.

The unrecorded stream, which is disposable to presumption connected RattleCam.org, is tally by researchers from California Polytechnic State University, according to a connection from the university, published Monday.

Situated successful an undisclosed determination connected backstage onshore successful Colorado, the den attracts rattlesnakes due to the fact that it allows them to fell and structure them from the elements.

Viewers tin expect to spot dozens of large rattlesnakes basking and interacting arsenic they hold to springiness commencement aboriginal this summer.

Lucky visitors to the website whitethorn besides spot uncommon events similar predators attempting to onslaught the rattlesnakes, and thirsty snakes drinking rainwater that has collected betwixt their coiled bodies, the assemblage said.

Morning and aboriginal evening are the champion times to watch, it added.

"This livestream allows america to cod information connected chaotic rattlesnakes without disturbing them, facilitating unbiased technological discovery," Emily Taylor, task pb and a biologic sciences prof astatine the university, said successful the statement.

"But adjacent much important is that members of the nationalist tin ticker chaotic rattlesnakes behaving arsenic they people do, helping to combat the biased imagery we spot connected tv shows of rattling, antiaircraft and stressed snakes interacting with radical who are provoking them."

Taylor said pups volition commencement to beryllium calved successful August and volition enactment successful the den with their mothers until the instrumentality of antheral snakes from summertime hunting grounds successful September.

The cameras volition past beryllium turned disconnected portion the snakes are hibernating implicit the winter, with the unrecorded watercourse acceptable to resume adjacent spring.

"We anticipation to yet instal cameras connected snake aggregations (group gathering) each implicit the satellite to assistance america amended recognize the behaviors of these complex, societal animals," Taylor added successful the statement.

Rattlesnakes are venomous "pit vipers" with heat-detecting pits connected their heads.

There are an estimated 33 rattlesnake species. They are adaptable, surviving successful forests, grasslands, swamps and deserts crossed ample swathes of the North and South America, from confederate Canada to cardinal Argentina.

But considering their range, deaths from rattlesnake bites are rather uncommon successful the United States, successful portion owed to their reclusive nature.

The rattlesnake "actually views america arsenic a predator; we're a ample carnal that could devour him. And they're acrophobic of us," Ted Clamp, laminitis of the Edisto Island Serpentarium successful South Carolina, told CNN successful July 2022.

As a result, rattlesnakes thin to enactment hidden.

"When we brushwood a snake connected the move, he's usually looking for nutrient oregon looking for a mate oregon looking for shelter," said Clamp.

"Otherwise, helium stays hidden due to the fact that they're truthful susceptible to each sorts of predators."