Quote Originally Posted by Jeff B View Post
I read a scientific paper which stated that their findings were that how low a drop in temp had more effect than the length of time for triggering the elevation of hormones when the temp is brought back up
But it seems like it's always parietalis they are studying. Most of our garters don't quite have to through what they do each winter. I brought this up to Dr. Robert Mason. He even told me that after studying NW species and Canadian parietalis' there's huge differences between them due to the adaptation to extreme cold and long winters. Conclusions or assumptions about all or even most garter snakes can't be drawn from studying just parietalis. He admitted that they are chosen because they need huge numbers of snakes to do such studies and it's just easier to study them because of the numbers.