Bruce Ireland is a snake wrangler primarily based in southern California, and movies of the snakes he comes throughout in his day-to-day job generally go viral. Eire not too long ago shared a video on social media exhibiting an enormous “beast” of a rattlesnake. It’s a red diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus ruber), a species that lives in southwestern California, and it seems to have simply eaten a giant meal.
“One of many greatest and thickest [rattlesnakes] I’ve seen,” wrote Eire in his Instagram publish sharing a video of the beast.
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Eire approaches the animal with the grabber instrument he makes use of to select up venomous snakes. It rattles furiously at it and sniffs the entrance of the instrument. The massive bulge within the heart of the snake’s physique is probably going its prey that it not too long ago ate complete. Rattlesnakes use venom to incapacitate their prey earlier than swallowing them in full.
“Have a look at the girth on this rattlesnake,” he says within the video. “That could be a beast.”
We don’t get to see how Eire finally picks it up.
See the beast of a rattlesnake right here:
Header inventory picture of crimson diamond rattlesnake by Alexander Wong/Getty Pictures