A university police officer moved the young Western diamondback rattlesnake to some bushes.
Students and faculty at Texas A&M University-San Antonio were reminded this week to watch out for wildlife, particularly the low-lying venomous kind, after a rattlesnake slithered onto a campus sidewalk. The Mesquite, the student news outlet, reported the sighting by a professor and the response of a campus police officer who used a thin pole to move the snake to some bushes next to the Auditorium.
The article quoted Charles Watson, a herpetologist and associate professor of biology at the university, identifying the rattler as a Western diamondback, about a year old, and cautioning that more snakes are likely to appear amid rising temperatures and ongoing construction at the fast-growing campus. Deaths from rattlesnake bites are “crazy uncommon,” Watson noted.
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