San+Francisco+Garter+snake+(Thamnophis+sirtalis+tetrataenia)


 * **Travis West**
 * **San Francisco Garter Snake**
 * **Thamnophis Sirtalis Tetrataenia**
 * //**Unknown**//
 * **Reptile**
 * **The San Francisco garter snake ( Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia) is a slender, colorful snake**
 * **Eats a wide variety of prey, including amphibians and their larvae, fish, birds, and their eggs, small mammals, reptiles, earthworms, slugs, and leeches. This snake is able to eat adult Pacific newts which are deadly poisonous to most predators.**
 * **Mating occurs in the spring (and possibly the fall ) and young are born live, spring to fall. [[image:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dje1xJgTtB0/SlguxOJJ3hI/AAAAAAAAALg/BCRmhJzkt_I/s400/s1.jpg width="119" height="180"]]**
 * **Found mainly in San Francisco and in Western U.S.**
 * **Originally in Western Europe and migrated to West coast of U.S.**
 * **Utilizes a wide variety of habitats, preferring grasslands or wetlands near ponds, marshes and sloughs. May overwinter in upland areas away from water.**
 * **Are often migratory**
 * **Above ground, no migration**
 * **Predatory style of life**
 * **Reasons why the San Francisco Garter Snake is endangered include loss of habitat from agricultural, commercial and urban development as well as collection by reptile fanciers and breeders**
 * **One way that the government tries to protect these species is by making it so that collection of these endangered animals by private citizens is illegal**
 * **Federal Endangered Species Listing (Federal Register 32:4001; March 1967)**
 * **//San Francisco garter snake: species account//, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Sacramento office, April 2005**
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