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The melanistic "curse" is weakening

PostPosted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 5:49 pm
by Rok Grzelj
This morning me and my wife went to our local berus spot...
...and spotted a melanistic female
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After that we spotted another one...melanistig again but with some "normal" colors :)
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And on the way back a nice natrix male with totally normal colors :D
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Re: The melanistic "curse" is weakening

PostPosted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 5:54 pm
by Jeroen Speybroeck
Love that speckled adder !

Re: The melanistic "curse" is weakening

PostPosted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:12 pm
by Borji Heras
no words, i´m so in love with melanistic vipers....

Re: The melanistic "curse" is weakening

PostPosted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:51 pm
by Jürgen Gebhart
Great Pics!! The natrix is very nice! The first berus also and the second berus is a big eye catcher!!!
Should I say more??? Yes or No?? ;)


I do: Black rocks!!!!! :lol:

Re: The melanistic "curse" is weakening

PostPosted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:31 pm
by Bastien Comment
Wow, fantastic pictures! The 2 first ones especially, they just look so pure ;-)

Re: The melanistic "curse" is weakening

PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 8:50 am
by Paul Lambourne
Rok,

Bloody hell, Teja takes a good picture :D absolutely stunning berus pics... :D

Cheers Paul

Re: The melanistic "curse" is weakening

PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 9:01 am
by Rok Grzelj
Paul Lambourne wrote:
Bloody hell, Teja takes a good picture :D absolutely stunning berus pics... :D



Thats why I look for snakes and she takes pics ;) team work
Ofcourse she also finds herps ...and I take some pics

Re: The melanistic "curse" is weakening

PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 10:11 am
by Mourits Løvholt
First of all; really nice pictures!!! :)

Rok Grzelj wrote:And on the way back a nice natrix male with totally normal colors :D


Melanistic adders are not really something that impresses me too much, not that there aren't beautiful, they are, that's a fact! But since they are very common in Denmark it's not really anything special to me :lol: .
But that grass snake is amazing?! You wrote ''totally normal colors'' -are you serious? Then I'm very envious! Almost every grass snake i find here in Zealand, is just 100% black despite the yellow markings on the neck. Your grass snakes are really nice! :D

Re: The melanistic "curse" is weakening

PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 10:24 am
by Rok Grzelj
First of all; really nice pictures!!! :)


Thanx :-)

You wrote ''totally normal colors'' -are you serious?

With normal I meant somethin not melanistic....finally :D

Re: The melanistic "curse" is weakening

PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 10:38 am
by Jeroen Speybroeck
Mourits Løvholt wrote:Almost every grass snake i find here in Zealand, is just 100% black despite the yellow markings on the neck.


That's interesting...

I would have to agree with Mourits, although I'm afraid at least Jürgen would call us crazy, but I cannot see how a black viper can be nicer than a regular one with the nice zigzag pattern... So, for me, black does not rock :|

Also, as much as I like Salamandra atra, I prefer a beautiful Salamandra salamandra anytime... Maybe it's my lack of skill, but I hate taking pictures of those blackies.

Is there really no-one else here who agrees? :oops: