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Kids watch as Western diamondback rattlesnakes are accumulated in a pit during the annual Jaycee’s Rattlesnake Round-Up in March 2020. Many of the snakes later die from decapitation, while others succumb to the weight and asphyxiation within the pit. Started in 1958, held annually in Sweetwater, Texas, the event sees hundreds of snakes captured from the wild and accumulated in pits. After measuring, sexing and extracting venom from the snakes, they are killed for their skins, which are sold along with the meat and some organs. (Photo by Javier Aznar Gonzalez de Rueda/Siena awards festival 2025)
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