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Vipera Berus trying to get a tan

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Elva

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Took my camera and boyfriend and went to a national park here in Sweden. I wasn't really expecting to see any snakes 'cause it has been many years since I did... I'm not so lucky I guess.

My boyfriend took me to a place he calls snake mountain and we have both been there before with no luck. But today after taking some shots of us and were heading back home we run into two little fellows just trying to get some sun!

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Unfortunately one viper took off before I was ready with my camera..

But I think I managed to get some great shots of the dude left :)

Enjoy!
 
Sweet!!!! Where was this? I *might* move to Sweden so I need to know where to go.

Great pictures, and that's a beautiful snake!
 
Nanci said:
How cool! What is its common name? Is it venomous?
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It certainly is Nanci, it's common name is the European adder, European viper or simply the adder. Yeah, it is venomous, we get them here in the UK (apart from Northern Ireland and Ireland (not a part of the UK)), though I've never seen one. :(

Great pictures, thanks for sharing! :)
 
Wow such a pretty Viper! I am glad you were looking for snakes, you'd be amazed how many people are bitten whilst stumbling across a sunbathing serpent.
 
SnakesRule1234 said:
Sweet!!!! Where was this? I *might* move to Sweden so I need to know where to go.

Great pictures, and that's a beautiful snake!
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---> Tyresta National park in Stockholm :). My favourite place in Stockholm!


Morph Collector said:
Wow such a pretty Viper! I am glad you were looking for snakes, you'd be amazed how many people are bitten whilst stumbling across a sunbathing serpent.
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Had a great mum and dad who used to take me and my sisters on snakehunts so we would learn to be cautious when we walked through snake territory :). We saw alot of vipers and grass snakes at those times :).
 
Snake Dave Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
How cool! What is its common name? Is it venomous?

It certainly is Nanci, it's common name is the European adder, European viper or simply the adder. Yeah, it is venomous, we get them here in the UK (apart from Northern Ireland and Ireland (not a part of the UK)), though I've never seen one.
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An Adder bite will swell a limb pretty badly, but as long as you didn't have any heart problems you'd be fine.

Thats a pretty dark individual! In the UK they tend to be a lighter brown-red (still dark in general) colour, maybe its a sub-population thing????

Awesome find anyways ;)
 
As far as I know there is a great variation in color with vipera berus - they can range from black to brown, copper or silver with a black zig-zag on the back.
It depends on location, climate (in colder regions the snakes are often darker), subspecies and sex.
I once saw one of the silver kind in a sandy heath in northern Germany where I planned to sit down a second ago - I never thought I would see an European adder so far in the north - so now I know they live even in Sweden ;)

In fact it was always a kind of sensation for me to see a snake in nature - around here we don't have many due to the colder climate and destruction of their natural habitats in the past...

Great pics!
 
Fantastic find! I'm hoping to find an adder finally this year where I go horse-riding, the owner of the stud saw some last year, and there's a huge dung-heap that'll hopefully been used as an incubator!
 
TWGarland said:
Thats a pretty dark individual! In the UK they tend to be a lighter brown-red (still dark in general) colour, maybe its a sub-population thing????
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Adders are one of few species where color makes difference in males or females. This one is a male. Brown specimen are always females.

Here are some Ducth vipers which I found:
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Wow, excellent shots Marcel!!! So they're kind of like slow worms, weird that sexual di-morphism is so common in European reptile species :shrugs:
 
Pruddock said:
Great looking snake. Are they very common when you get out herping?
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I don't know about Sweden but here in Holland they are very rare. I have found less than 30 specimen in all my live. I spend a few days per year looking for them.
 
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