garter snake

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Recent Examples of garter snake 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 Between the lines: The plains garter snake's disappearance points to largerproblems with the ecosystems in our backyards. Alissa Widman Neese, Axios, 29 Jan. 2025 Amphibians such as frogs and toads thrive in the moisture-rich soil, while reptiles like garter snakes patrol the forest floor. Scott Travers, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025 However, eastern garter snakes and eastern rat snakes are both native to Virginia. Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for garter snake
Recent Examples of Synonyms for garter snake
Noun
  • On a water snake, there’s no mask, just little vertical stripes below the eye.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2024
  • For one thing, rattlesnakes have different fat profiles than Chinese water snakes.
    Jordan Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The backyard was home to a population of wildlife, such as bull snakes, racoons and skunks.
    Dana Oland, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • Such an enormous size is mind-blowing compared to that of modern sea snakes.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Filmed over nearly four years, the series explores locations from the Himalayas to the Western Pacific, featuring wildlife stories including elephants that have learned to stop buses to steal food in Sri Lanka and sea snakes hunting in partnership with fish.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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