Jeroen Speybroeck wrote:Wait a minute... Have you been cheating, GJ, putting Eryx and Daboia in the list of what you found?
What`s wrong with that? We found the snakes in two boxes in Aviad`s Garden!
Jeroen Speybroeck wrote:The Cerastes night sounds a great experience. I know there has been a lot of talk about this already, but with this added experience, Jürgen, would you say you can have results in these Old World deserts that resemble cruising a night in certain areas in the US? No? I still don't get why that is...
I don`t know, but my guess is (not only for the desert), that the high activity in the night is a way/strategy to survive.
As you know the US deserts don`t have many night active lizards, that means not much food is on the way at night. Also the other food, the rats and mice, are active at night (in both areas).
So there are also more night active Snake species in the near Middle East area than in the US.
In the US you don`t have that many Day active predators as you have in the near Middle east.
The near Middle East, where Africa hits Asia, is also the Bird highway to their Hibernation places. Not only the Birds from north and middle Europe, but also the Birds from West/North Asia take that route to Africa.
Last year in spring we saw hundreds of white Storks every Day, this year in fall we saw some white and some black storks and a Marabu (my first!). Also many eagles and Buzzards take that way.
Better to be night active!
But as I wrote, just a guess.