V. Amodytes from Serbia

[Berislav Horvatic]

Great find! Males are much more striking that females, especially freshly shed.
Maybe, some would disagree but thats simply my subjective point of view...

On the average, males do have more contrasting colours than females, there's nothing subjective in that.
The rest depends on what you mean by "striking".

[Daniel Kane]

I'd say all vipers are 'striking'.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Milan Simonovic]

Great find! Males are much more striking that females, especially freshly shed.
Maybe, some would disagree but thats simply my subjective point of view...

On the average, males do have more contrasting colours than females, there's nothing subjective in that.
The rest depends on what you mean by "striking".

Well thats exactly what i meant, strikingly coloured, strikingly beautiful etc!

[Milan Simonovic]

I'd say all vipers are 'striking'.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Agreed

[Berislav Horvatic]

Well thats exactly what i meant, strikingly coloured, strikingly beautiful etc!

Well, I'm afraid you could be readilly "attacked" by people who prefer just the opposite, e. g. something like this:

(A female, of course...)

[Milan Simonovic]

Good looking animal!

[Aleksandar Simovic]

here is one male near Uzice



most of the males on this site have similar coloration, for many years of observation I have seen only two "normal" color males, here is picture of one of them:

[Milan Simonovic]

On the other hand, i dont think i have ever seen a male with that kind of coloration ( first picture ) in all of Nis soroundings.

[Berislav Horvatic]

here is one male near Uzice
most of the males on this site have similar coloration, for many years of observation
I have seen only two "normal" color males

You lucky, lucky guy!
How big is this happy "site", how far does it extend?

[Aleksandar Simovic]

Its few HA, pretty big if you ask me, i found similar males on other sites near. And btw both shots are in situ

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picture of another similar specimen, note the awesome red tail