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by Snake18 on June 29, 2005
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Hy guys,
I just fixed my internet connection and I will be posting more often from now on(at least till this connection falls apart too).
The current state of my viper is stabil. She`s moving a little more now, but only the posterior part of the body. All I can see at the nech area is some weird voluntary muscle twiching when I grab her behind the head. I realy hope she`s on her way to recovery.
What have you guys been doing ? It`s mid herping season here. I allready caught about a dousin european adders(Vipera berus), among others, this spring and summer, including a melanistic individual(black).
Saturday I`ll be heading the the "Macin Hills", a southen part of Romania, home to: Dobrogean Nose-Horned Viper(Vipera ammodytes montandoni), Caspian Whip-Snake(Dollichophis caspius), Aesculapian Rat-Snake(Zamenis longissimus), Smooth Snake(Coronella austriaca), Blotched Rat Snake(Elaphe sauromates), Mediteranean Spur-Thighed Tortoise(Testudo graeca ibera), about 7 species of lizard and pretty big centipedes(up to 8 inches long). It`s a herping hot spot here. Plus the scenery is superb. I`ll take pics and post some when I`m back. It will be a 7 day expedition, with 6 members and it will take us a whole day to get there. But I`m more than sure it will be worth it. I`ve allready been there twice and it was always worth all the effort.
Glad to final be back here...best regards, Alex S.
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by Cro on June 29, 2005
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Great to see you back Alex! Computers can at times be a real pain.
Good to hear that the viper is still hanging in there. I am thinking more and more that it might have mechaninal damage to the spine / nervous system from a fang puncture. Hopefully, it will recover for you.
Sounds like a great herping trip you are planning. Should be a lot of fun. I look forward to seeing the photos that you post after the trip.
Here, I have rescued a big Black Rat Snake and a Eastern Box Turtle from the road, and let the snake go in my barn. Lots of mice and birds in there, so maybee he will stay a while. Also found a nice juvenile Eastern Hognose Snake and took some photos, and a DOR Scarlett Snake. Hav`nt made a real collecting trip yet this year, but hope to.
Best Regards JohnZ
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by Snake18 on June 30, 2005
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I`ve found very few reptiles on roads in Romania, and only in one place in 2003. I`ve found several dead Slow-Worms(Anguis fragilis) and a dead Smooth Snake(Coronella austriaca). The frustrating part about finding the dead Smooth Snake was that it had only been killed(not run over by a car but probably killed with a stone) a couple minutes befor I got there and that I have never found a live smooth snake in the wild.
I do however have a very bizar rescue story to tell: I found a slow-worm on the road in the same place, it was ran over by a car and it was a gravid female. It had a hole on one side of the mid-body and I could see the babyes inside still alive. It was about time she gave birth anyway: mid august, so me and my friend took all the babyes from her body and all of them looked very healthy. We released them in the woods, far away from the road. We couldn`t save the female but at least we saved the babyes.
About the viper, I also thing that the damage to her body is mechanical because she received a bite in the past from another viper and absolutely nothing happened. I never read anything that would suggest so but I think that Vipera ammodytes is imun or at least highly resistent to it`s own venom.
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