Animals

She Is Dispersing Seeds

I took a close up and cropped it of her head. She has plant seeds all over her head and neck. Some look like milkweed seeds. She is carrying these seeds from one location to another. This is called epizoochory; seed dispersal via transportation on the outside of vertebrate animals. I learned something new today.
Diamondback water snake (Nerodia rhombifer)

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