Studies reveal that Glendale snakes are the solitary creatures; they do not prefer to engage in intraspecific communications. These species are not even equipped with any physical arrangement to do extensive interaction; they can hear only a few airborne sounds. However, snakes perform few essential communications that are important for securing, finding and defending their breeding partners.



Snakes are capable enough to analyze various chemical clues around them by using their taste and smell like senses. But the essential system for making communication between them is their vomeronasal system. Note that Jacobson’s organ is the essential component of their vomeronasal system. It is located on the top portion of their mouth and it posses two different openings through which chemicals can enter. These two openings are separately dedicated to their bifurcated tongue. Whenever snake flicks its tongue to the outer environment, it simply collects some essential chemicals and put them into the Jacobson’s organ inside. This process further helps them to understand what kind of smell is coming and from which direction the source exists. Snakes make use of this vomeronasal system to smell approaching predators, track their pray as well as to communicate with other snakes.

Another technique of communication used by these Arizona reptile species is leaving pheromones behind wherever they go. Earlier, most scientists believed that these pheromones are directly left on the substrate, but few recent studies show that one of these pheromones can be airborne and it makes sensing possible for snakes at a great distance. They can communicate with their other group members by collecting, leaving and analyzing such pheromones. Snakes are also able to communicate information about their age, gender and reproductive system via these pheromones.

The Juvenile red-sided Glendale garter snakes can follow pheromone traits that are left in the air by adults to avail winter dens with ease. These snakes also have one more complex behavior, and that is related to their mating process. Several male red-sided garter snakes get surrounded by one larger female snake to follow the process of the breeding ball. However, all of these snakes first take approval from female snake to start the mating. The tricky fact is that some of these male snakes also release female hormones just to confuse their other competitors during the mating process.

Some male Arizona snake species are quite antagonistic toward each other. They try to communicate their dominance and to do this they can even engage in combat. This action is more common during the breeding season, especially when they encounter a female in the nearby location. The male snakes also try to jerk, twitch and follow few other movements just to ascertain the receptivity towards the female snake. The female will approve her partner according to these movements. Some female snakes wave or lift their tail in the air when they are receptive. Although few snakes produce hiss sound or rattle their tails towards predators, in actual, most of these creatures are considered deaf to the airborne sounds. However, king cobra often challenges all these assumptions.

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