[Flycatcher]

You are correct.

That is the current theory in herp circles.

[cpdiii]

My experience in the desert of West Texas (in the 60s) is much different. If in the open and no avenue of escape, they would coil and rattle. If they were in the brush they would try and get away. I did not follow them into the brush, and I have not been bitten my a rattlesnake.

I can get along with rattlesnakes, but water moccasins are bad.