The Birth of Urocoan Rattlesnakes
The birth of Urocoan Rattlesnakes at SnakeCity Johannesburg South Africa.
Urocoan Rattlesnakes are Highly Dangerous and are naturally found in Venezuela in South America.
Most snakes lay eggs with a white leathery shell, others incubate their eggs internally. These eggs don't have a white leathery shell but a thin transparent egg sack. Within this egg sack the embryo gets all it's nourishment and develops.
The female "lays" these eggs at the time of hatching. Some hatch within the female and come out free from their egg sack, others are deposited still within their egg sack and break out of it soon after being laid.
A baby Urocoan Rattlesnake breaking out of it's transparent egg sack, soon after being laid.
Baby Urocoan Rattlesnakes a few minutes old.
Wow! That's pretty cool - I've never seen that before and I didn't know that some of them hatch before and some after. That's very interesting information! Do most of them have the same length when they're born? They look cute :)
Most of the babies are more or less the same size. You do get stillborns and runts. But each is an individual with it's own likes and dislikes. Some will eat this and some will eat that. Some will sit on rocks, others under shelter- they really are "cute" to observe.