Mario Schweiger wrote:@Jürgen:
It seems you are a very good vipers specialist
Why Cerastes cerastes and not C. vipera?
I would be unable to tell, if the snake isnt still burrowed!
Mario
I don`t have much experience with the Cerastes group, but I never saw a Cerastes vipera laying in the sand away from brunches, bushes, clump of grass, always close to them.
Cerastes cerastes lays most of the time in the middle of the dunes, with nothing around.
And Cerastes cerastes is digging deeper in the sand than Cerastes vipera, because of the size. This tracks stay longer.
If the wind blows away the tracks to the resting place of cerastes vipera it will also blows away the tracks of the resting place.
But no one in this forum knows more about the Cerastes the Aviad Bar and you, if you say it is not possible to say, than all right.