Spectators watch snakes being weighed in a pit in Sweetwater, Texas.
Every March for 51 years, collectors have delivered thousands of western diamondbacks that are later killed for scientific and commercial use—culling about one percent of the state's rattlers, experts estimate.
Herpetologists and conservationists oppose the roundups, which fetch a collector U.S. $5 per pound of snake. This year's take: 5,000 pounds (2,268 kilograms).
Photograph by Andrew Owen
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