"Look how big I am!"- said the snake (Natrix natix persa)

Wow, didnt realise how big they grew! Thanks for sharing that info with us

N. n. persa (also sometimes put under Natrix natrix natrix) grows to about 150 cm. The N. n. helvetica (also foun id the UK) grows to about 200 cm long. FEMALES ARE ALWAYS BIGGER THAN MALES.

impressive

Gorgeous indeed. Wow what a wonderful snake. Just love to find some like that myself and hold it like you did.

Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:55pm


(N. n. persa (also sometimes put under Natrix natrix natrix) grows to about 150 cm. The N. n. helvetica (also foun id the UK) grows to about 200 cm long. Males are always bigger than females.)


Hi MiZad,
In the UK, and I thought everywhere, females are larger than males. I beleive this is due to the female carrying the eggs.

Nice snake and nice to put a face to your name! :up:

Thanks, I wasn't writing what I was thinking. I've made the necesary corrections. That's what happens when I'm "multitasking"- in this case, browsing over several web pages. Yes, the larger females can carry about 40 eggs, extremes are from 5 to 105 per individual! Several "Grassys" can lay their eggs together in one place, along with the Aesculapian Snake and other species, and there were reports in the past that up to about 10 000 eggs were found in one place. Such sites are extremely rare today, partly due to the decline of the number of compost heaps, which are one of the prefered laying sites (they also use moss heaps, vegetation piles, under roots, sometimes in the scrapheap).
I have a laying site very near my vacation cottage and I know that at least 1 big "Grassy" goes there. Last year I found 6 babys (by accident- I didn't know they were there, arround the site- the site itself is under a concrete terrasse, so even if I wanted to, I can't get to it), this year 5. I think (and hope!) that they arent the only ones who hatched because when I found them, they were "beggining" their second or third week.