The eyes belong to the taxidermized gophers populating the dioramas of the Torrington Gopher Hole Museum. The Museum was opened in 1996 in the rural hamlet of Torrington, Alberta (pop. 200).

Finding a snake in your yard can be an unnerving experience ... Snakes are always on the lookout for the perfect shelter, and an abandoned gopher hole is like a ready-made home with all the ...

These snakes like to take over burrows, so don’t stick your hand in gopher holes during the summer and winter! The Fer-De-Lance is the deadliest snake in South America.

“That’s bad news for the tortoise and for hundreds of other southeastern species who rely on them to thrive, from the threatened indigo snake to the wild and weird gopher tortoise shell moth.” Gopher ...

You may also hear it referred to as the blue bull snake, blue indigo snake or blue gopher snake because of its largely friendly relationship with gopher tortoises. Eastern indigo snake populations ...