forming a mating ball, where one female is surrounded by up to one hundred males. The best time to witness this spectacular annual snake orgy, is the beginning of May.

The narrow-headed garter snake is a nonvenomous snake found in and near the cool, clear headwater streams of the U.S. Southwest. With its stripeless, grayish-colored body, it has been called “drab” in ...

Around 75,000 to 150,000 red-sided garter snakes gather for mating. This is the world's largest snake aggregation. Conservation efforts, like tunnels under highways, helped the snake population ...

We've built a campaign to re-establish a unique backbarrier lagoon habitat at Sharp Park in Pacifica, California — public land that's a significant habitat for the garter snake as well as its ...