How to Use pine snake in a Sentence

pine snake

noun

• The 14 pine snakes released into the wild last week haven't had their last encounter with biologists, according to the zoo.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026
• The Audubon Zoo’s herpetology department manages a breeding colony of 21 adult Louisiana pine snakes.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
• The zoo has been working with the species for more than three decades, and, in collaboration with a number of conservation partners, has hatched and released a total of 80 Louisiana pine snakes to the wild so far this year.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
• Kisatchie National Forest was selected as the release site because of its abundant underground shelters, like tree stump holes and gopher burrows, appropriate for the Louisiana pine snake’s needs.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
• According to the Audubon Zoo, the facility's reptile building is closed to visitors for renovation, but its herpetology department is currently caring for a breeding colony of 21 adult pine snakes, which produce offspring each year that are released into the wild.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026
• The Audubon Zoo, located in New Orleans, released a group of Louisiana pine snakes into the Kisatchie National Forest in northern Louisiana on June 3.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026
• The Louisiana pine snake, or Pituophis ruthveni, was listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2007.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026