The giant garter snake is now California’s official state snake. Discover its unique traits and habitat challenges.

Spending time outdoors in the summer months sometimes means crossing paths with one of the area’s most common reptiles – the Eastern garter snake. Often, just the sight of a snake can add a little ...

One summer day I lifted the black plastic top of our composter and jumped back, startled — a large snake was curled up on top of the compost. The yellow stripe down the center of its dark back and two ...

Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Sep., 1991), pp. 261-268 (8 pages) Studies of snake demography usually involve the estimation of litter size and neonate size, but potential sources of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Female red-sided garter snakes, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis, become unattractive to most males after mating in the field and in the ...