'Teenage' rattlesnakes, if there is such a thing, are just slightly smaller versions of adult rattlesnakes. They look the same as an adult and each one is well equipped with fangs and venom and they know well how to use them. Since rattlesnakes receive no parental care and are on their own from the moment of birth, they are born 'streetwise' and not to be provoked.
Rattlesnakes do not play with anything.
Like all land animals, rattlesnakes get oxygen by absorbing it into their blood through their lungs.
Like about two years!
Like all venomous snakes, rattlesnakes produce their venom in glands inside the head that are similar to salivary glands.
Rattlesnakes, like most snakes, are only active if they are hungry and looking for prey. Rattlesnakes do not see humans as prey, however. If not hungry, they will curl up and avoid contact with others.
Yes, rattlesnakes are carnivores in the sense that they devour small rodents and adolescent birds.
Rattlesnakes are called rattlesnakes in the desert and elsewhere.
like fish scales mostly
scales & skin like other snakes.
Yes, like all rattlesnakes it is venomous.
First of all, rattlesnakes do not ignore animals. They hunt them for food. Secondly, Rattlesnakes, like all animals, have a sense of sight. They can tell the difference between a plant, which they don't eat, and an animal, which they do.
Copperheads This is, in fact, myth. Copperheads do not smell like cucmber and rattlesnakes do not smell like watermelon.