Time for Brumation?

[Peterra]

Resilient little snakes when it comes to dealing with the cold (they seem able to brumate close too freezing):

"Bailey (1949) assessed survival atdifferent depths (6-24 in; 1 in. = 25.4 mm) in an artificiallyconstructed snake pit. He found that all snakes survived at adepth of 24 in., where the soil temperature never fell below-0.5"C, but mortality increased at the 18-in. depth, where thetemperature sometimes fell to - 1.5 "C. All snakes died at allshallower levels, where extended exposures to -2°C or lowerwere recorded (Bailey 1949) "

https://www.researchgate.net/profile...s-sirtalis.pdf

On a different note I just realized I misspelled brumate in a different way every time I wrote it.... Wow, there should be a special prize for that