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Old 10-29-2006, 03:43 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Cool Re: Last Wild Garter of the Year Contest

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Originally Posted by Stefan-A View Post
Don't worry. Just travel to Halland (Sweden). There's reportedly a wild T. sirtalis parietalis population in that area.
Really... ?

Do you have more info on that?

I have often said to my colleagues in the Reptile Zoo that it is amazing that there are no population of Thamnophis living in the wild in the Netherlands.
I know of Pantherophis guttatus that they can survive the whole year in our country, but it is difficult to reproduce because our summers are to short to incubate he eggs.
And that is no problem with Thamnophis because of their live-giving birth.
There must be escaped specimen here that survidec over longer time. Maybe tey did not find a partner. It's just a matter of time that a pregnant female escapes somewhere.
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