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Vicar
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View other posts by Vicar 		Posted: 16 Nov 2004

Had a discussion yesterday, and we were pondering reasons as to why the adder has evolved with red eyes.

Our Lacertids seem to have white(ish) eyes, albeit a little bloodshot at the edges, so we wondered if it had anything to do with mammalian prey....but the slow worm has redish eyes too, can't think of any evolutionary reason as yet.

Any thoughts ?

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Jimpklop
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Joined: 23 May 2006
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View other posts by Jimpklop 		Posted: 19 Jun 2006

Hi Steve

Its been a while since you posted this and no one replied so i gave it some thought, bearing in mind I'm not a scientist  so I'm not very good at making connections like this and i have no idea how you would find out if the correlation is correct but here's my idea:I see Slow Worms out way past 20 degrees and you said Adders i quite tolerant to hot temperatures (or more so than other native reptilian species)

Its not really the evolutionary reason you were looking for but it my spark of some more idea's

Thanks 

James

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