Too cold for snakes in Ireland? Have a look at
www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/wildlife/managing/fs_redsided_garter_snake.html
about the garter snakes in Manitoba (-40 in the winter).
.... unless we're talking about summer temperatures ...
Don
John D'hondt wrote:
> Too cold for snakes in Ireland? Have a look at
> www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/wildlife/managing/fs_redsided_garter_snake.html
> about the garter snakes in Manitoba (-40 in the winter).
That is exactly it Don, your garter snakes hibernate as do a lot of your
mamals. In Ireland temperatues are too high for that which means that you
will see bats flying in January and February when they can hardly expect to
catch any insects. That is much harder than sleeping through the cold.
john
> ... unless we're talking about summer temperatures ...
And summers are not warm enough to really put on the fat.
john
You know more about it than we do, John. All this time I thought you, up on your cold hill, had a lower temperature than the rest of Ireland.
I hope to get to Ireland this summer and see you guys!
Carol
