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draybar
at Tue Dec 16 19:49:36 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by draybar ]
>>How do the snakes keep from freezing in below freezing tempuratures? I mean seriously freezing like when they become hard and everything is frozen. If you put a mouse in below freezing, it will freeze stiff, how does a snake keep from freezing stiff?
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when snakes brumate in the wild they either do so below the frost line (underground) or in cover such as deep leaf litter where the decomposition of the debris will keep the temperatures above freezing.
The above are just a couple of the many types of areas corns might find to brumate.
If a snake is in below freezing temperatures for any length of time it can and most likely will kill it. The longer it is exposed to below freezing temps the more likely it is to freeze to death.
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Remember, my posts are MY opinion only.
Jimmy (draybar)
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they don't - draybar, Tue Dec 16 19:49:36 2003