Corn rattle snake?

I can't remember if I've seen a thread about this before, but after feeding my corn her meal, she felt threatened when I tried to pick her up and started RATTLING the tip of her tail! Caught me by surprise. She does have a tiny piece of stuck shed on her tail, which probably helped make an audible rattle!

Has anyone else noticed this behavior in their corn snakes?? :rolleye2:

Corns, milks, kings, they all can do it here is one of my king doing it.

YouTube - Fear me!

The little baby king snake I saw at my school petting zoo did this. It was really cute

Thanks for the video! I have the world's most angry little corn snake. She hates me. Now, she thinks she's a rattle snake. Lucky me :P

My yearling okatee rattles ALL the time. He is also very strike happy. I think my corn snake is the most evil. lol

I have never seen a corn snake do this before! That's awesome! Is it a "fear" reaction??

sorry double post

My corn's do this when they go into shed:) they add the strike pose too . next time I'll have to video them.

Mine does it whenever she doesn't feel like being bothered or when she's eating. Usually she'll make sure she's hitting the side of the enclosure so it makes lots of noise!

My hatchlings rattled a lot when I first got them. Even my 07 lavender female rattled at me one time when she was really, really hungry. I think with the little guys its defensive and with the older ones its just being over excited about eating. I think its cute and it always makes me laugh, but to answer your question, yes, it does happen and isn't anything to worry about.

A lot of colubrids do it - subocs, flavirufa, cribos, indigos, pits..............

lol that vid was cute. yea my baby corn does it when there is a storm. no other time lol shes asilly snake

My corn doesn't, but my gopher snake rattles her tail all the time. She has never even gone into striking position, though. I think they just do it when they get nervous as an instinctual response (I just got her a few weeks ago and she is still getting used to me).

She's not very convincing though. Usually sounds like a vibrating cell phone :D