Incredible cluster of snakes in Manitoba (video) Bashny.Net

In the spring in Manitoba can stumble upon a huge cluster of snakes. It is worth noting that this place snakes more than any other place in the world. As you know, reptiles in winter sleep, but with the onset of heat, they crawl to the surface. Just at this time they mate, and it all happens in one place called NarcisseSnakeDens.

A question arises: why here? The fact that during the Paleozoic era, this place was ocean water. Water, of course, now there is, but the bottom will not go away. The soil itself, consisting of limestone, containing many cracks and crevices, and so they form a sort of well with percolating water.





Because snakes are cold-blooded animals, they love such places. They are perfectly suited for hibernation at a time when in winter the temperature can drop to 50 degrees below zero. A flock of stuffed into a small space, and hibernate. When the snow melts in early may – they all crawl to the surface.

First, to examine the situation on the surface start males, and for them to appear female. In color they are no different, and at a time when couples are formed, the impression of boiling spaghetti. Not infrequently it happens that one female can simultaneously attack five to ten males and then it all becomes a live ball. These balls can be found in any place: in the bushes, on rocks and even in trees. This time attracts tourists from all over the world. At such a sight come to see a large number of people. These snakes to humans are harmless, so among tourists, not a few children who are in awe of what he saw.



Source: mif-facts.com.ua