reptiles Archives - Cottage Life

A watersnake basking on a rock

Cottage Q&A: Why do we have so many watersnakes?

Outdoors

A spiny softshell turtle lounging on a rock

The most Canadian creature on earth is…a turtle?

Outdoors

Wild Profile: Meet the Blanding’s turtle

Outdoors

Wild Profile: Meet the red-bellied snake

Outdoors

Close-up of a snapping turtle on a beach.

Nature groups asking Ontario government to ban snapping turtle hunt once and for all

General

Snapping turtle walking along the shore of a body of water.

Pelican and snapping turtle duke it out on northern Ontario lake

General

A brown and grey massasauga rattlesnake.

Rising temperatures could drive more venomous snakes to Canada

General

Close-up of an Eastern box turtle, with orange skin and a dark-coloured shell.

Canadian pleads guilty after being caught smuggling 51 turtles in his pants

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Close-up of a dark-brown, Massasauga rattlesnake in a grassy field.

High number of rattlesnake bites reported in cottage country this summer

General

Close-up of a green bullfrog.

A guide to identifying nocturnal nature sounds at the cottage

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