Last but not least: the Elaphe quatuorlineata
The most beautiful specimen I've seen in my life was the specimen shown below. A male: big and yellowish. After capture it began to inflate its body laterally and to hiss like the asiatic snake Coelognatus radiatus
- Big yellow male "in situ". Cres island
Another "in situ" specimen. Different habitat, Cres island
While abandoned villages in the north of Cres are the habitat of Z.longissimus, the abandoned villages in the north of Losinj are home for the E.quatuorlineata
- Found in the village of the picture above
Baby found on a road in Cres island
- Baby "in situ", resting on the road
- Not happy to be saved
Cres island: big specimen "in situ"... with a herper ready to catch it!
- Big specimen, "probably" met for two consecutive years around the same place
- The snake has good camouflage between rocks and dead leaves
- More than 150 cm? I think so!
- This is a big female, found the year before, which I suppose to be the same snake shown above
Sometimes, but rather rarely in my opinion, one can find specimens among tree branches
- Cres island: "in situ" picture
More commonly you can find specimens basking on low bushes
- Cres island: "in situ" picture
- Probable courtship at the edge of a trafficked road on Cres island
- Big, recently fed specimen, "in situ". Cres island
Other specimens, "in manu", just to show some colour differences
- Adult
- Another adult
- A third specimen
- A subadult
- A big specimen, found crossing a main road
- A younger specimen