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Tony Phelps Forum Specialist Joined: 09 Mar 2003 No. of posts: 575  View other posts by Tony Phelps |
Posted: 04 Apr 2003 Mating - if you are fortunate to come across grass snakes mating have a good look at their size of some of the males - some are tiny compared to the females - not sure but some males definitely mating at what would be their third season - being slender a 40cm grass snake will appear much smaller than an adder of equal length. You may see just one male on to one female - but the 'scramble' strategy is more common than we think. Mating balls appear to occur in certain areas, I know where you can see this on at least three sites in Purbeck and a really cracking site in the Mendips. One female in company with four males today had a large bulge at mid body so grass snakes, if not female adders certainly feed before mating.
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