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For the first time, researchers — employing an innovative twist on the mirror test — have found evidence that garter snakes can distinguish themselves from others, using not sight but scent.

She loved gardening and even delighted in picking up garter snakes, Huestis said.

However, in 2020, Morgan Skinner, a behavioral ecologist at Wilfrid Laurier University, and collaborators showed in laboratory experiments that captive garter snakes have “friends”—specific snakes whose company they prefer over others.

On Tuesday, Missy saw a garter snake slithering through the grass behind the blacktop.

Boxes containing water snakes, garter snakes, woodland salamanders, dusky salamanders and other species arrived last month.