Snakes need a warm environment to maintain a normal body temperature. So, snakes living in temperate climates must find shelter from the cold for the winter season. While snakes are known as solitary ...

Male garter snakes that emerge from hibernation and attract a mob of deluded male suitors may just be looking for safety in numbers and body heat.

Tourists and travellers alike can get a glimpse of garter snakes waking up from their winter hibernation in dens across Narcisse, Man. Tens of thousands of these snakes wake up as part of an ...

Garter snakes bear live young instead of laying eggs. In fact, in most live-bearing snakes, the females are considerably larger than the males.

A garter snake, or garden snake, or gardner snake, is any species of North American snake within the genus Thamnophis. Garter snakes are extremely common across North America, from Canada to ...

Garter snakes are hardy and can survive in our cold winters through hibernation. They will hibernate in dens that are usually in rocks or crevasses below the frost line; they often return to the ...

As Michigan hibernating snakes awake from a long winter, here's where you may find them.

As Michigan hibernating snakes awake from a long winter, here's where you may find them.

Oftentimes they hibernate with a large group of other garter snakes in burrows. In fact, there have been recent studies done on social constructs within the garter snake community.

Garter snakes, emerging from hibernation, form large writhing intertwined masses, intent upon copulation, a spectacular but rarely observed sight. The babies are usually born between June and August.

Garter snakes begin their mornings by basking to raise their body temperatures into the 80s, the optimal metabolic temperature for digestion, reproduction, and other activities.

Multiple snake species hibernate together, so you may find black rat snakes, eastern copperheads, and eastern milksnakes hibernating with eastern garter snakes.