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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Seen Any Snakes Lately? You Will.
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:00
	Publish Date:		2018-05-17 09:00:00
	Description:		Chances are, if you haven’t yet seen your first snake of the year, you will soon. In this week's episode of Wildlife Matters , the Masked Biologist talks about snakes of northern Wisconsin. This time of year, as the days get warmer, the nights are still cool, and vegetation is still relatively short, snakes are coming out of hibernation, moving about to hunt, and looking for places to lay eggs. Since snakes cannot generate their own body heat, they tend to come out on the gravel, stones, or street pavement in the mornings to warm up and are readily visible to vehicles. Consequently, this time of year, I tend to talk to a lot of folks about snakes. There are 20 species of snakes in Wisconsin, and only two of them are venomous. Both venomous species are rattlesnakes, and they are limited to the bluff country of western and southwestern Wisconsin, near the Mississippi River. We do not have venomous snakes in the North. I know there are people reading this article right now who disagree
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