Like most snakes that give live birth, garter snakes leave their mother soon after birth. Snakelets are typically around six inches long and grow to about two feet long as adults. One of the ...

Like all garter snakes, the Mexican garter snake gives birth to live young instead of laying eggs. On average, about half the females in a population will give birth each year, and they will birth ...

Young snakes are self-reliant from birth and can start hunting for food shortly after their emergence. Garter snakes belong to a species highly diversified into subspecies, and many of those ...

BREEDING: Giant garter snakes breed from March through May, with males immediately searching for mates after emerging from winter retreats. Females give birth from late July through early September.