Texas is the homeland of the Western diamondback rattlesnake, a plague to cattle, oil pipe engineers and everyone not on the alert. At Sweetwater's annual Rattlesnake Round-Up - the largest in the world - only live snakes are brought in, ...See moreTexas is the homeland of the Western diamondback rattlesnake, a plague to cattle, oil pipe engineers and everyone not on the alert. At Sweetwater's annual Rattlesnake Round-Up - the largest in the world - only live snakes are brought in, to extract the venom needed for medical research. Thus, ingenious and scrupulously delicate hunting techniques are developed.
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