A better version of this photo is probably available at the Rana Konsult Photo web gallery
Crotalus adamanteus in Ordway preserve, Florida, USA in 5, 1989.
This one was found because had eaten a rat with a radio transmitter. Check Bull. Flor. Mus.
Nat. Hist. 38:140 for an X-ray. Thanks to Leslie HaySmith for supplying the rat, to Richard FRanz
for locating the snake and to Walter Timmerman for inspiring the snake.
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