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Article: When garter snakes mate, it's quite a slithery dither
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 18, 1986
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Things I Learned En Route to Looking Up Other Things:
That professional actors and actresses are not permitted to use
their own real names in their careers if those names have already
been registered with Actors Equity by another performer (even though
the performer has adopted it as a stage name).
That in the Hamptons on Long 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 male is equipped with two sexual organs, and
after the female has been impregnated, he inserts a large "plug" into
the ...
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