The Learning Zone

[Invisible Snake]

"Garter snake Teeth - Did you know that garter snakes have enlarged rear teeth? These are thought to help aid in prey consumption by helping get their mildly toxic saliva deep into the tissues of their prey which helps immobilize it. This photo does a great job of showing this amazing adaptation.

Photo by Zack West.

Conservation Through Education"

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[Steveo]

I think most of us learned that one the hard way :P

[ConcinusMan]

"Did you know that garter snakes have enlarged rear teeth?" Thanks for the warning but I could have used that information before the late 1970's when my first one tried to eat me LoL

[indigoman]

I observed an eastern eating a toad, the toad inflated himself with air as a defensive move to make him too large to swallow. The garter used rear teeth to puncture his belly letting the air out and continued to swallow him.

[guidofatherof5]

I observed an eastern eating a toad, the toad inflated himself with air as a defensive move to make him too large to swallow. The garter used rear teeth to puncture his belly letting the air out and continued to swallow him.

Very cool. Unless you're the toad.

[Invisible Snake]

Snake Fungal Disease affecting snakes in the East and Midwest.

USGS National Wildlife Health Center - Snake Fungal Disease

[Greg'sGarters]

Very cool. Unless you're the toad.

Toad: hey, Hey, HEY HEY HEY!!! I WAS BIGGER A SECOND AGO!!!!!!

[Stefan-A]

USGS National Wildlife Health Center - Snake Fungal Disease
"Snake Fungal Disease (SFD) is an emerging disease in certain populations of wild snakes in the eastern and midwestern United States."