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Recent Examples of garter snake
Snakes like the red-sided garter snake are known to be great pets.
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
This is the red-sided garter snake’s grand social season, a few weeks every year when anywhere between 75,000 to 150,000 individuals emerge to mate.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Every male in the crowd competes to align their tails with the lone female red-sided garter snake for a chance at copulation.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
In Manitoba, families crowd wooden platforms to watch tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes mate en masse at the Narcisse Snake Dens.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
This is the red-sided garter snake’s grand social season, a few weeks every year when anywhere between 75,000 to 150,000 individuals emerge to mate.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Every male in the crowd competes to align their tails with the lone female red-sided garter snake for a chance at copulation.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
In Manitoba, families crowd wooden platforms to watch tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes mate en masse at the Narcisse Snake Dens.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for garter snake
Noun
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Waterfowl glided near us, a water snake slithered by.—
Elisabeth Vincentelli,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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On a water snake, there’s no mask, just little vertical stripes below the eye.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Feb. 2024
Noun
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All sorts of animals that would horrify the average homeowner — like a four-foot-long venomous coral snake — were now his neighbors, which led to deeper reflections.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
11 Nov. 2024
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This family of about 400 species includes coral snakes, cobras, and mambas and is considered medically important since their bites can destroy tissue, cause the heart to collapse, induce blindness, and more.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
19 Sep. 2024
Noun
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In Hawaii, a gopher snake could threaten the food chain because the species has no natural predators in the state.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
21 Nov. 2024
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In Hawaii, a gopher snake could threaten the food chain because the species has no natural predators in the state.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
21 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Gray foxes are said to reside here along with reptiles like the smooth green snake and eastern milk snake, as well as numerous birds, including the Virginian rail, Henslow’s sparrow, bobolink and eastern meadowlark.—
Susan DeGrane,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Mar. 2025
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Gray foxes are said to reside here along with reptiles like the smooth green snake and eastern milk snake, as well as numerous birds, including the Virginian rail, Henslow’s sparrow, bobolink and eastern meadowlark.—
Susan DeGrane,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Gray foxes are said to reside here along with reptiles like the smooth green snake and eastern milk snake, as well as numerous birds, including the Virginian rail, Henslow’s sparrow, bobolink and eastern meadowlark.—
Susan DeGrane,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Mar. 2025
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Gray foxes are said to reside here along with reptiles like the smooth green snake and eastern milk snake, as well as numerous birds, including the Virginian rail, Henslow’s sparrow, bobolink and eastern meadowlark.—
Susan DeGrane,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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According to wildlife specialist Kayla Jobe, who spoke with KOKI, bull snakes are not venomous and can be helpful to have near (but not in) your home since the reptile eats small rodents.—
Tabitha Parent,
People.com,
17 Dec. 2024
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The backyard was home to a population of wildlife, such as bull snakes, racoons and skunks.—
Dana Oland,
Idaho Statesman,
31 Jan. 2024
Noun
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Take, for example, a species of sea snake that inhabits the inland bays of New Caledonia, an island in the Pacific Ocean.—
Stephen S. Hall,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
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Such an enormous size is mind-blowing compared to that of modern sea snakes.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The Fort Worth Zoo is one of four places across North America that houses the Louisiana pine snake species.—
Nicholas Rice,
Peoplemag,
19 May 2024
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The Fort Worth Zoo has released a total of 229 Louisiana pine snakes into the wild in recent years, per the facility.—
Nicholas Rice,
Peoplemag,
19 May 2024
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“Garter snake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garter%20snake. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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