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Postby armata » Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:41 pm

I was flipping rocks app 10km north of Oudtshoorn and found a small Psammophis crucifer neatly coiled up. I picked it up to find that it was cold and very dead. Shame, but got a sample. Darn weather :(
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Postby Bushviper » Tue Oct 09, 2007 5:33 pm

So is there now a cross to mark where he was?

You must have been cross too. Luckily you came across it before it decomposed.
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Postby elapid » Tue Oct 09, 2007 5:36 pm

Bushviper wrote:So is there now a cross to mark where he was?

You must have been cross too. Luckily you came across it before it decomposed.


LOL,

It wouldn't even cross my mind to herp in weather like this.
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Postby Pythonodipsas » Tue Oct 09, 2007 5:39 pm

Was it fully grown and maybe died of old age??

Its weird hearing of sick or dead 'wild' snakes. I once caught a ultra skinny mojave rattler that looked like it had been in a cage for years without food. It didn't rattle and just hung limp like sock.
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Postby armata » Tue Oct 09, 2007 5:49 pm

Snow on the Swartberg and rain, but I have found live skaapies and whips snakes under rocks in such weather.
The crucifer was just 30cm a youngster - no chance of decomposition in this weather.
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Postby Rhino Viper » Tue Oct 09, 2007 6:51 pm

Shame poor snake. When is the weather going to change? So what happened to global warming?
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Postby rubida » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:56 pm

Warm/heat…what’s that? Its more like ice age encroachment in Oudtshoorn! Cant handle this cold...:smt073
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Postby Deon » Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:03 pm

Talking about the cold, did anyone see the article in the Cape Times about the iceberg off the east coast, East London..... Strange...
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Postby rubida » Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:41 pm

I heard about it this morning on the Morning Live programme. What next? Just imagine, Polar bears drifting on icebergs to Africa!
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Postby boing » Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:26 am

The ice berg was near PE, not East London!!!
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Postby Bushviper » Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:02 am

Boing same thing. You cannot keep lizards in either of those places.
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Postby boing » Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:14 am

I don't expect the poor Gauteng people to understand the vast differences between PE & EL, because if they grasped exactly what was involved, they would want to live in PE!!

I don't want to keep iguanas or bearded dragons anyway. I just want a little rocky and a real dragon - one that breathes fire and has wings!!!
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Postby froot » Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:24 am

The one thing about PE that interests me is that B. albanica occurs in the area.
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Postby armata » Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:36 am

You can distinguish between armata and albanica, as the latter is usually coated with a fine layer of cement dust!!
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