\[ **up: [[Zoology]] | [[Snakes]]** ] --- # Garter snakes (*Thamnophis sirtalis*) > [[Garter snake mating ‘often occurs in large balls of males attempting to copulate with a single focal snake, sometimes a receptive female but also sometimes a male snake releasing similar pheromones to a receptive female.’]][^1] [^1]: Julia D. Monk, et al., ‘[[Monk et al, ‘An Alternative Hypothesis for the Evolution of Same-Sex Sexual Behaviour in Animals’, 2019|An Alternative Hypothesis for the Evolution of Same-Sex Sexual Behaviour in Animals]]’, *Nature Ecology & Evolution*, vol. 3, no. 2 (December 2019), p. 1625. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1019-7.