Transcript: Analysis: Recent discoveries in science and the idea of species surviving

Article: She-male garter snakes: some like it ...
Science News;  November 17, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Male garter snakes limping out of hibernation in northern Manitoba can mimic females ... But there's no evidence for any mating advantages for the "she-male" garter snakes, nor do scientists know how these awakening snakes attract other ...

Article: Garter snakes yield sexual chemistry.
Science News;  July 22, 1989 ;     700+ words ... ... For one month every spring, male garter snakes gather in groups of several ... these in a den with courting male garter snakes. Only one preparation, containing ... males," a small group of male garter snakes that other males court as if ...

Article: When garter snakes mate, it's quite a slithery ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  June 18, 1986 ;     561 words ... ... Island, some summer homes rent for $100,000 for the season from Memorial Day to Labor Day. That the ratio of male garter snakes to females is so skewed that sometimes as many as 100 frantic males may be intertwined with a single female; each ...

Article: She-male snakes need their love to keep them warm. ...
Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication;  February 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... spring in southern Manitoba. Tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes emerge from their underground hibernation dens and engage ... purposes, say the scientists. One: It warms the she-male garter like a blanket; and two: It surrounds him-her with a ...

Article: Ecology and Morphology of Thamnophis sirtalis pallidulus ...
Northeastern Naturalist;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... May and October 1993, a total of 391 garter snakes were marked. The total male:female ... ventral and/or subcaudal scales. Adult garter snakes on Georges Island are slightly smaller ... species. Little work has been done on garter snakes in the Maritime Provinces (Bleakney ...

Article: Garter snakes, newts in genetic war
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  April 11, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... between normally toxic newts and the garter snakes that eat them. Now they have discovered ... molecular defenses against the poison. Garter snakes regularly do something you can't ... are common in West Coast streams. As garter snakes have raised their chemical defenses ...

Article: SCALES OF BEAUTY; Learn the riches of garter ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  May 5, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... British Columbia. The only places where garter snakes cannot be found are in the arid Southwest ... States, however, we have Eastern garter snakes that are different in appearance ... found in wet fields and around ponds. Garter snakes feed on frogs, toads, salamanders ...