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    Over here we only have the adder, Vipera berus, a not all that poisonous venemous snake.

    People who are bitten seem to have trapped one either by accident or intentionally. Most people don't seem to be able to identify an adder, nor differentiate it from the grass snake, Natrix natrix, nor the slow worm, Anguis fragilis, which isn't even a snake.

    I think that having a fairly boring reptilia class in the local fauna is all to the good.

    Anne the Pleater :ootd:

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    Crotalus horridus, Buncombe County, NC.



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    My M.S. in Zoology was earned at Louisiana State University. I spent 5 years there studying water snakes in the coastal region from Texas to Florida. Needless to say I have a ton of snake stories, and have lost a lot of blood to ill-tempered Nerodia species.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tartan Hiker View Post
    My M.S. in Zoology was earned at Louisiana State University. I spent 5 years there studying water snakes in the coastal region from Texas to Florida. Needless to say I have a ton of snake stories, and have lost a lot of blood to ill-tempered Nerodia species.
    I have a copy of "The Amphibians and Reptiles of Louisiana" by Harold A. Dundee and Douglas A. Rossman. I encounterd a beautiful specimen of Lampropeltis getulus in Baton Rouge.
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    Rossman was my major prof., and still a good friend.
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