Apparently, water snake mating season is upon us, and for the past few days, the freshwater coasts of Florida have been covered in piles of happy water snakes going at it as hard as they can
Some water snakes at an annual orgy. Photo: JZHunt/Getty Images/iStockphoto Picture this: You’re a young, banded water snake, enjoying life in Lakeland, Florida. You spend your nights hunting and swimming in rivers and marshes, and your days sunning yourself on riverbanks, or dangling peacefully from branches over the water. It’s a pleasant existence. Quiet.
According to Live Science, water snake mating season is upon us, and for the past few days, the freshwater coasts of Florida have been covered in piles of happy water snakes going at it as hard as they can.
How do snakes do it, you might be asking yourself. Well, according to HowStuffWorks.com, when a female snake is ready to mate, she’ll release a pheromone — like me, applying Marc Jacobs Daisy perfume in college before going out for the night. If a male catches of whiff, he’ll come and find her, and court her by “bumping his chin on the back of her head and crawling over her.” If she’s into it, she raises her tail, and he wraps his tail around hers so that their cloacas meet.
Mating season should be over soon, and then this summer, according to Live Science, little baby water snakes will enter the world, and begin their blissful, enviable lives of swimming, sunning, and annual orgies. That’s the dream…
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