These rattlesnakes have been seen many times hiding in mammal burrows.

Adults can be located in forested understory, hiding under coarse woody debris, rocks, and in small mammal burrows.

During the daytime they hide in all kinds of places, such as deep mammal burrows, rock fissures and fallen rotted logs.

Sometimes they can be found in abandoned mammal burrows, hollow trees, dense water reeds and mangrove thickets.

The night snake is also known to inhabit mammal burrows.

It nests in a 4-5 m long tunnel in a bank or the side of a mammal burrow.

Termite mounds and empty mammal burrows are important habitats for this species.

Favored retreats include mammal burrows and other underground hiding places, where they also aestivate.

Shelters in mammal burrows, fallen trees, debris piles and similar sites that offer some protection.

Adults have frequently been found at the entrances of mammal burrows, or captured in mammal nests.