i have a albino corn snake and i picked it up last night but it was rather scared of me... its tail was rattling and smacking the incubator bottom if this is any help to u... i was trying to find out why it was doing this....
it shakes its tail
End of tail
The tail of a rattlesnake consists of a series of interlocking hollow buttons that produce the rattle sound when the snake shakes its tail. Each time the snake sheds it produces a new segment for the rattle. It is used as a warning to potential predators or to large mammals that could step on the snake. See the image above of a rattle from a rattlesnake.
on the end of its tail.
It wouldn't be a rattle snake or snake without a tail. Would it??
Nope - the rattle noise is caused by the last few segments of a Rattle snake's tail rubbing together - creating the classic rattle noise.
BLACK TAIL RATTLE SNAKE CAINEBRAKE RATTLESNAKE EASTERN DIMOND BACK RATTLE SNAKE MASSASAUGA RATTLE SNAKE MOJAVE RATTLE SNAKE PACIFIC RATTLE SNAKE PIGMY RATTLE SNAKE PRARRIE RATTLE SNAKE SIDE WATERS SPECKELED RATTLED SNAKE TIMBER RATTLE SNAKE AND WERSTERN DIMOND BACK RATTLE SNAKE
The possessive form for "the rattle of the snake" is the snake's rattle.
There are several species of harmless snakes that will mimic a rattlesnake. One of the more impressive is the gopher snake. They will shake their tails when they feel threatened and, if they happen to be on dry leaves, they sound just like a rattlesnake.
It vibrates its tail - making a sound similar to that of the rattle-snake.
The rattlesnake's menacing sound comes from its rattle tail. The rattle is composed of a series of nested, hollow beads which are actually modified scales from the tail tip. The rattling occurs when the snakes are threatened.
What is making the rattle sound? If it is a rattle-snake, the rattle is to warn anything the rattle-snake believes is a danger to the snake, to keep away.