Opportunities for encountering turtles, lizards, and snakes at the Natural Area are plentiful. Patience and respect for these shy animals often yield rewarding insights into their intriguing lifestyles. Eat a wide variety of plant and animal matter. Eat mostly insects, spiders, worms. Winter underground or in rotting logs.
All snakes are carnivorous.
With the aid of highly flexible jaws, they can ingest relatively large prey and go for long periods between meals. Although keenly able to sense vibration, snakes are deaf. Most snakes hide by day, prowl by night, and spend the winter underground or in deep rock crevices. Because they tend to be secretive and nocturnal, mammals are not easily observed. Characteristics of mammals include hair, well-developed teeth, and milk glands for nursing their young.