On July 4th we welcomed three tiger rattlesnakes. The gravid (pregnant) female tiger rattlesnake was taken to the Joyce Corrigan Animal Care Center twice for ultrasound exams. The ultra sound images from March 5 show the developing eggs, while the images from March 14 show the snake fetus.
Did you know, tiger rattlesnake babies are born fully developed and ready to take on the world!? In the wild, the babies may stay in the same area as the mother until the go through their first shed, but the parents do not raise the babies.