What is the ribbon?

Ribbon snake or Thamnophis sauritus is a glossy, slim member of the garter family. Snakes are easily identified by their slender bodies and long vertical stripes. They use their ability to disappear in a strong undergrowth and quickly swim with water to escape the predators. There are four types of snakes ribbons: blustripe, peninsula, eastern and northern snakes ribbons,

these snakes can come in copper gold in blue and white to green below them. They grow to 18 to 38 inches (45 to 97 cm) long. Snakes Eastern ribbons are usually green with yellow stripes along the length of their bodies. Bluestipe ribbons have a blue-green back with light blue side stripes and a yellow-green underside.

Hads with olive brown with light tanned stripe down in the middle of the back and a thin light green stripe on both sides. The Eastern Ribbon Had is usually brown or black with a lively yellow or white stripes along its length. The tail of all four of these subspecies make up a third of a bano -body, whichIt is a feature that helps to distinguish it from a relative garter snake. These snakes live near the edges of ponds and lakes and look for water for fish, tadps, frogs and newts. Some snake subspecies can be found in road inputs and channels and are most active during the day.

6 If they are caught, the study ribbons will throw themselves, level their heads or wipe and expose the protective behavior of some poisonous snakes. The snake ribbon rarely hits and is not poisonous. Hearts his attacker feces and a strong aroma of musk. The last option for the Snake ribbon is to separate its tail like some lizards - tails snakes are regenerated.

snake ribbons have unusual reproductive behavior. After copulation, the male ribbons keep the other men in the fertilization of the woman by putting the plug into the woman's reproductive tract. Unlike many types of snakes that lay eggs, snakes of female ribbons give birth to live young, which look like a smaller version of an adult.The birth of three to 26 young snakes usually occurs in the summer and neither parent cares about the juvenile.

Although they are the prey of several species of animals, the intervention of the habitat is the closest danger of a snake ribbon. Snakes ribbons are not officially threatened, but generally decrease in the number due to human destruction to their habitats. Loss of water sources from housing development and increased predation of domestic animals is usually their greatest threat.