My dad bought this rattlesnake rattle on Ebay from a guy in Texas.

And we brought it here to compare. So here’s our rattle that we got

from a rattlesnake in Texas. Here’s one on an actual snake, as he slithers away.

Whoa, how would you like to come across that guy? That would be, that would freak me out. I’d go running in the other direction. Where is it? Oh, he has a big, old body. We’re back home from the really cool zoo in Arizona, and now it’s time to cut this rattlesnake rattle open. That was a great zoo, and we brought this rattlesnake rattle all the way home.

Whoa! You can hear it through the plastic bags. One thing that we learned over there is that there’s 36 different species of rattlesnakes in the world. That’s a lot. I’ve seen rattlesnakes on the golf course and then while hiking through the mountains and the rock areas in southern Utah and Arizona. That would scare me so bad.

But the cool thing is, they, obviously if you’re not familiar with a rattlesnake, they put their tail up and then they shake this away, shake this rattle. And then, that’s what keeps predators away. So, it’s interesting because these guys can shake

this thing 50 times every, what do you think? Every second.And they can do it sustained for up to three

or four hours. Your job today Lincoln, why don’t you take it out and then put it on this paper towel.

Whoa! That feels really weird! It’s like you can move it so easily. All right, so lift it up from the body

part of it. Ugh! From like right there, part of it and try to shake it.

So you can try to make the noise, like. Like that, kind of?

Well, they do it 50 times in a second. I can’t do it, I can’t move this thing 50 times

in a second. Okay, I’m gonna take this razor blade and just cut into it.

Eek! All right, let’s go right down, what do you think?

Right down the middle? Yeah, that would be good.

Like that. It’s gonna hurt the table. I should probably put something underneath it. Okay, we got a cutting board.

Now it doesn’t, it’s not gonna scratch the table when I cut through it, so let’s go.

I don’t think it’s designed for people to cut them in half.

Yeah, these are tough. Sounds kinda gross.  [Lincoln] It is kinda gross.

(cracking)- [Dan] Ooh. – [Lincoln] Ooh. Yuck!

(cracking)- [Dan] Oop! Ripped it in half.

– [Lincoln] Yucky! There’s nothing inside of it. What do you bet it just has this little

shell-type material on the outside? That’s really interesting.

It’s not, there’s no balls inside of it that make it rattle or anything.

If I squeeze it hard, watch this, I’m barely squeezing. I squeeze almost the entire thing.

So, at birth for a rattlesnake, the first button is on there, it’s called the pre-button.

And then a few days later, they get their first button on top of it and it’s called a button.

But it still doesn’t make any noise until they get the second layer on top of it.

That way it can shake and they can hit Now sometimes people think that the longer

the rattle, that the older that the snake is. Not necessarily true, because a lot of times

they lose ’em, whether they’re in a fight or a predator comes and gets ’em, or they lose

it between a rock, and they’ll lose some of the buttons.

But every time that they shed their skin, a new layer is grown on the end of it.

It still is disgusting that this was on a snake once. Take a smell of it.

See what it smells like, the body of it. Aw! It smells like dog!

Uh dog, it’s nasty. So with a lot of our videos we like to post

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that we cut open a rattlesnake rattle. And if you have any other good ideas

of things that we should cut open and explore, just let us know.