Do rattle snake eyes glow...

[jkf123]

For the snake experts....

Do rattle snake eyes glow at night when spotlighting? Or any snake for that matter?

[Buckrider]

Copperheads eyes in my backyard don't seem to glow any but the bodies seem to be easier to spot at night with flashlight than in daytime for some reason??

[crunchtime]

If they do it's pretty dim. Kind of like a week spider eye reflection. Maybe with a dim light?

I'm just guessing so I'm going to say yes.

[keep]

Not after the shovel hit them.

[wilded]

no but spider eyes do.

[Bones]

Nope. I studied that exact subject last week. Rattle snake eyes do not glow. Tarantulas and whiperwills on the other hand do.

[JerryC]

I've never seen snake eyes reflecting light like a deer's or dog's eyes. I've done a lot of frog gigging and noticed the eyes of frogs and gators glowing, but never any of the snakes we came up on. My 2 cents worth.

[badger16]

Nope. I studied that exact subject last week. Rattle snake eyes do not glow. Tarantulas and whiperwills on the other hand do.

Whiperwills glow like mad!

Rattlesnake eyes will on a camcorder with night shot.

[cosmiccowboy]

No but their tails do. Those white bands will really glow in the headlights.

[JonBoy]

For the snake experts....

Do rattle snake eyes glow at night when spotlighting? Or any snake for that matter?

yes they do...I walked up on a rattlesnake in the dark of the morning and was only able to spot him from a distance b/c of his eyes...they have the same reflective surface in the back of their eyes as dogs, cats, etc so that they can see better at night...

[Texastaxi]

yes they do...I walked up on a rattlesnake in the dark of the morning and was only able to spot him from a distance b/c of his eyes...they have the same reflective surface in the back of their eyes as dogs, cats, etc so that they can see better at night...

I thought that rattlesnakes depended on heat sensors as their main sense of "vision" and that their eyesight was actually pretty poor.

[JonBoy]

I thought that rattlesnakes depended on heat sensors as their main sense of "vision" and that their eyesight was actually pretty poor.

They do...and I'm not claiming to be a snake expert but I would figure that they still use their eyes to some degree...all I know is that when I walked up on that rattlesnake in the dark and spotted him with my flashlight the first thing I saw was his eyes glowing...

[ballisticbudda]

They do when you replace them with Lumenoks!

[TexasAggie04]

I remember studying night vision in animals in college. A lot of animals have a layer of tissue in the eye either near or behind the retina called the tapetum lucidem. This allows for the "night vision" in some animals. I dont recall ever remembering anything about snakes having this extra tissue though.