Girondica or austriaca?

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Re: Girondica or austriaca?

Postby Ruggero M. » Sat Sep 23, 2017 11:49 am

Another difference: I was never bitten by girondica. Austriaca sometimes or often bites when captured.

P.s. Thanks Bero! ;)
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Re: Girondica or austriaca?

Postby Berislav Horvatic » Sat Sep 23, 2017 12:13 pm

Ruggero Morimando wrote:Another difference: I was never bitten by girondica. Austriaca sometimes or often bites when captured.

Oh yes, it does. In most cases. Even if handled quite gently. And in a really strange way - it actually announces the bite! It quite slowly and "friendly" adjoins its head to your finger, sidewise, as if
fondling you - then you know a bite is to follow... and in most cases it does. No other snake, to my knowledge, does anything like that.

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But after a few bites, it relaxes totally (and so does the "culprit"/"torturer" as well):

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Yes, it's the same one, now quite tame...
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Re: Girondica or austriaca?

Postby Gabriel Martínez » Thu Sep 28, 2017 11:41 am

Yes, it looks like a tiny girondica

BTW: I was bitten by a girondica just once. Was in october, with cold, under a huge Stone. It was angry and try to bite me many times, and finally it got it!
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