erythristic babies on the way

[snakeman]

Actually the red one is normal.W/C from panama city ,FL.I really don't know what advantage the red coloring is in the wild.But there seems to be a lot of them popping up here and there in the southeast.

[Stefan-A]

Originally Posted by snakeman

Actually the red one is normal.W/C from panama city ,FL.I really don't know what advantage the red coloring is in the wild.But there seems to be a lot of them popping up here and there in the southeast.

In many species it may serve as a warning to animals that have the ability to see colors in that spectrum. I believe birds in particular have that ability. What I wonder is whether it's a legitimate warning in garters or just a bluff, there was the issue with the concinnus, that were found to accumulate the poison from newts and becoming poisonous themselves. I don't know. I've wondered about the same thing with parietalis, which tends to have a lot of red.

Rick would probably be able to answer that question.