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    Rattlesnakes on California's Santa Catalina Island have learned that it pays to be unusually aggressive

    by Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times Apr 02, 2024 3 minutes
    An adult male red diamond rattlesnake is photographed at San Timoteo Canyon in Riverside County on March 18, 2024.

    LOS ANGELES -- Discerning what makes rattlesnakes tick is a life’s work for researchers like William Hayes. So if he wants to introduce you to the biological complexity that makes them worthy of study, be prepared to follow a deliberately cautious route climbing over boulders and stepping over logs.

    Take San Timoteo Canyon, a river valley near the San Bernardino County city of Redlands offering all the creature comforts rattlesnakes need to multiply and prosper: rock outcrops on which to bask in the sun, thickets of vegetation

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