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Garter Snakes Form Friendships

Garter Snakes Form Friendships

by Joeby Ragpa - May. 30, 2023

Garter snakes form friendships. By tracking 40 snakes over eight days, researchers found that the reptiles tended to return to the same groups.

The research, published last month in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, looked at the behavior of 40 garter snakes—30 of them wild-caught, 10 captive-bred. When placed in an enclosure with a limited number of hiding places, the snakes not only formed groups, but returned to the same cliques after they were scrambled around. The findings match up with previous conclusions that reptiles can make friends and could be used to improve reptile relocation efforts.

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