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Learn how to tell a milk snake from a coral snake.
Milk snakes typically live alone, but during the winter, they gather in dens. There may even be other types of snakes in the dens. These could include rattlesnakes. There, the snakes enter a state called brumation. They slow down and don’t move very much. Milk snakes start brumation in October or November and come out of it in April or May.
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Making Connections
Text-to-Self
Would you want to see a milk snake in real life? Why or why not?
Text-to-Text
Have you read other books about snakes? If so, how were those snakes similar to or different from milk snakes?
Text-to-World
Milk snakes have patterns on their skin. What other animals have patterns on their skin?