Report Abuse. Very simply the difference between a peptide and a protein is the size, i.e. number of aa's. Just a few aa's and most call it a peptide.
Hibernacula, hibernaculum, hibernation site, overwintering site, refugia, den. All of these words are used to describe the places where many. snakes spend the cold months of the winter and at times, the. extreme heat of summer. Hibernacula can range in form from.
However, some snakes find hibernacula by tracking conspecifics with their forked tongues and vomeronasal sense. Clean snakes have very little -- if any -- odor. Lacking hair, feathers or dander, and shedding their skin in a punctuated, periodic manner, snakes do not produce smelly detritus like mammals and birds do.