At an Arkansas lake, 'Ivan' the water snake turned out to be Ivy, at the center of a mating ball

At an Arkansas lake, 'Ivan' the water snake turned out to be Ivy, at the center of a mating ball

At Arkansas' Lake No. 1, a diamondback water snake known locally as "Ivan" turned out to be Ivy, a female at the center of a spring mating ball. Experts say the scene offered a normal glimpse of snake behavior, one shaped in part by how often human and wildlife spaces overlap. What happened? At Lake No. 1 in North Little Rock, a visitor recently saw a larger diamondback water snake bundled together with several smaller snakes, the group so tight…