Article: Garter snakes emerge to slither and mate

Article: Researchers Study Toxic Newts, Snakes
AP Online;  April 12, 2005 ;     372 words ......battle between toxic newts and the garter snakes that prey upon them have discovered...ake's defense against the poison. As the garter snakes have raised their chemical defenses...discovery was that separated populations of garter snakes differ in their amino acid sequences...

Article: SCALES OF BEAUTY; Learn the riches of garter snakes.(Life-Discovery)
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...United States, however, we have Eastern garter snakes that are different in appearance. The...found in wet fields and around ponds. Garter snakes feed on frogs, toads, salamanders and...

Article: Garter snakes, newts in genetic war
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  April 11, 2005 ;     618 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: An enthusiastic fang This week, biology professor Bob Mason will bring his passion for snakes to audiences in Maine
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;  April 9, 2007 ;     571 words ......the lives of his personal favorites, garter snakes, inspired "The Snake Scientist," a...Bangor on April 14. Why do you love garter snakes? They are the perfect ambassador for...have a very similar mating system to garter snakes. I also would like to see grass snakes...

Article: Ecology and Morphology of Thamnophis sirtalis pallidulus (Maritime Garter Snakes) on Georges Island, Nova Scotia
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: Jenpeg snake a giant
Winnipeg Free Press;  May 18, 2006 ;     593 words ......good reason. The 23-year-old University of Manitoba student studies a population of red-sided garter snakes in a unique den at Kiskitto Lake near the...discovered the grandmommy of all red-sided garter snakes coiled inside one of his wooden boxes. The...its sub-species ever recorded. ...

Article: Analysis: Recent discoveries in science and the idea of species surviving
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday;  November 18, 2001 ;     700+ words ......looking very carefully at drag queen garter snakes, fish called sticklebacks and human...there's such a thing as drag queen garter snakes. DAN CHARLES reporting: These are male garter snakes. They don't look like female garter...

Article: Garter snakes yield sexual chemistry.
Science News;  July 22, 1989 ;     398 words ...Garter snakes yield sexual chemistry Scientists have...SCIENCE. For one month every spring, male garter snakes gather in groups of several thousand...collected sexually primed, unmated adult garter snakes, 18 females and 24 males. They killed...

Article: She-male garter snakes: some like it hot.(snake uses trick to create warmth and protection)(Brief Article)
Science News;  November 17, 2001 ;     525 words ...Male garter snakes limping out of hibernation in northern...mating advantages for the she-male garter snakes, nor do scientists know how these...much of North America. In Manitoba, garter snakes converge on the few spots suitable...

Article: Big Island snakeskin puzzles officials
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;  October 14, 2006 ;     202 words ......cannot figure out how it got there. Garter snakes, which are not poisonous, can grow...Department of Agriculture. On the mainland, garter snakes live near marshes and freshwater streams...waterway is found in dry South Kona. Garter snakes do not like salty areas such as a beach...

Article: BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, FACULTY MEMBER CONDUCT RESEARCH ON A LARGE NUMBER OF GARTER SNAKES
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 16, 2008 ;     390 words ......Dr. Brian Smith released 47 female garter snakes and their offspring, numbering in excess...expended and weight gained and lost, that garter snakes in South Dakota put into reproduction...conducted in Canada, researchers found that garter snakes, on average, gave birth to seven ...

Article: DNR wants plans altered to protect garter snakes
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  March 24, 2002 ;     157 words ...NEW BERLIN (AP) - Garter snakes are choking the city's plans to build a $40 million civic center...proceed since last summer, when DNR officials discovered Butler's garter snakes in an area where a road would be built to the center. The state...

Article: Having a ball. (Animal Angles).(red-sided garter snakes)(Brief Article)
Odyssey;  February 1, 2003 ;     290 words ...Thanks to limestone caverns in Manitoba, Canada, red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) live farther north than...University in Corvallis, OR. Dr. Mason is an expert on red-sided garter snakes, but even he is still sniffing around for answers on this...

Article: DNR SHIFTS POLICY ON PROTECTING SNAKES.(METRO)
The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  May 10, 2005 ;     397 words ......from numerous developers that Butler's garter snakes were stalling their projects, Wisconsin...for studies to learn whether Butler's garter snakes lived there. If the snakes were found...and determine whether the Butler's garter snakes would thrive there. Some projects were...