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Originally Posted by Charlatan
Cellophane... I can't think of the last time I saw a snake in the city.
The only ones I see now are at the cottage... and by frequency, I meant rarely. Though when I was a kid, I do remember coming across a mess of garter snakes (there is a name for this that escapes me now) all twisted up together. THAT was very creepy.
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The word is hibernaculum... whew. I had to ask my 10-year-old son to remind me but he came through in a clinch. And while a hibernaculum describes pretty much any chamber or covering used for hibernation, the garter snakes up here where it gets really cold in winter gather together in numbers close to 100 for the winter. Interestingly they always winter in the same hibernaculum every year (travelling up to 3 or 4 km to get there).
Can you tell this was eating me alive that I couldn't remember?
I return you to your regularly scheduled thread...