#Garter snake

[monstermonger]

I stumbled across a photo (by Lindy Pollard) that fantastically mirrors a little dragon I drew a few years ago.... I can't get over this...

[wildflowers-of-southern-ontario]

Garter Snake Thamnophis sirtalis Colubridae

Photographs taken on July 28, 2023, at Marmora and Lake, Ontario, Canada.

[herpsandbirds]

San Francisco Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia), family Colubridae, San Mateo County, California, USA

ENDANGERED.

Photograph by Faris Khan

[typhlonectes]

Garter snakes make friends, organize their society around females

Finding comes from first-of-its-kind study of thousands of wild snakes.

Garter snakes have something in common with elephants, orcas, and naked mole rats: They form social groups that center around females. The snakes have clear “communities” composed of individuals they prefer hanging out with, and females act as leaders that tie the groups together and guide their members’ movements, according to the most extensive field study of snake sociality ever carried out. “This is an important first step in understanding how a community of snakes is organized in the wild,” says Gordon Burghardt, an ecologist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who was not involved in the research. Other experts agree: “This is a big deal,” says integrative biologist Robert Mason of Oregon State University. “It’s a whole new avenue of research that I don’t think people have really given any thought to"...

Read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/garter-snakes-make-friends-organize-their-society-around-females

[great-and-small]

Spotted the worlds prettiest garter snake while herping. Love how his body kinda makes an infinity symbol with the way he moves. Took a few quick photos and left him to his snakey business

[blessedscavengers]

a leetle garter snake

terfs fuck off

made in 2024

[mcromwell]

I was looking for the caterpillar responsible for munching the cabbage but instead I found a B A B Y

OOOOHHHGHH BABY

[sorrcha]

garter snake & rhododendron

[heartspark]

A californian red sided Garter snake themed wof adoptable! This guy Was so fun to work on 🐍✨️

[sparklepie]

Todays Pixel Daily was snake

Made a little snake in the fall leaves.

[headspace-hotel]

oh. a little friend.

Why so fat tho?

[witchofbrigid]

Apollo keeps sending me good bois

[decadent-hag]

NOT a fan of me!!!

[herpsandbirds]

California Red-sided Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis infernalis), family Colubridae, found in California, USA

Photograph by Tim Spuckler

[typhlonectes]

Garter snakes make friends, organize their society around females

Finding comes from first-of-its-kind study of thousands of wild snakes

Garter snakes have something in common with elephants, orcas, and naked mole rats: They form social groups that center around females. The snakes have clear “communities” composed of individuals they prefer hanging out with, and females act as leaders that tie the groups together and guide their members’ movements, according to the most extensive field study of snake sociality ever carried out. “This is an important first step in understanding how a community of snakes is organized in the wild,” says Gordon Burghardt, an ecologist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who was not involved in the research. Other experts agree: “This is a big deal,” says integrative biologist Robert Mason of Oregon State University. “It’s a whole new avenue of research that I don’t think people have really given any thought to.” Ecologists had long assumed snakes are antisocial loners that hang out together only for core functions such as mating and hibernation. However, in 2020, Morgan Skinner, a behavioral ecologist at Wilfrid Laurier University, and collaborators showed in laboratory experiments that captive garter snakes have “friends”—specific snakes whose company they prefer over others. Still, studies of wild snakes were lacking “because they’re so secretive and difficult to find,” Skinner says...

Read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/garter-snakes-make-friends-organize-their-society-around-females

[cainhowlett]

Wip, ink layout before carving