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About the Cover
The cover image shows a western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) in a defensive posture, photographed in the wild in Sonora, Mexico. The tailshaker muscles that are the subject of the paper (Moon, Hopp and Conley, pp. 667-675) are in the black-and-white part of the tail just anterior to the rattle, where the two lines originate that lead to the graphs below the snake. The graph on the left shows the sinusoidal rattling forces exerted by a snake rattling at 90 Hz, and the graph on the right shows how muscle tension increases with contraction frequency from 20 to nearly 100 Hz. Photograph by Brad Moon.
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