The Snake ScientistDr. Robert Mason, the current recipient of the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator's Award, has been studying a mysterious phenomenon for over 15 years--one of the most extraordinary events of the natural world--the reemergence from a winter spent in a state of suspended animation in subterranean caverns of tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes--the world's largest concentration of snakes. Full color photos. |
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