Instead of hibernating, snakes go through a process called brumation, which is similar to hibernation but not quite the same. Brumation is a dormant state that cold-blooded animals, like snakes ...

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LITTLE RIVER, S.C. – Emerging from a cold body of water after brumation, the alligators in South Carolina look like a powdered cheese snack baking in the sun. Photographer Dan Krieger was ...

Technically, snakes don’t hibernate like warm-blooded mammals. Reptiles, including snakes, brumate during cold months, means they stop eating when the temperature drops. Their metabolism slows ...

When the weather warms up and spring arrives we begin to see snakes emerge from their brumate period. Brumation, a form of dormancy in reptiles, is similar to hibernation. According to the ...