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Tony Phelps
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Joined: 09 Mar 2003
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Posted: 04 Apr 2003

Mating - if you are fortunate to come across grass snakes mating have a good look at their size of some of the males - some are tiny compared to the females - not sure but some males definitely mating at what would be their third season - being slender a 40cm grass snake will appear much smaller than an adder of equal length.

You may see just one male on to one female - but the 'scramble' strategy is more common than we think. Mating balls appear to occur in certain areas, I know where you can see this on at least three sites in Purbeck and a really cracking site in the Mendips.

One female in company with four males today had a large bulge at mid body so grass snakes, if not female adders certainly feed before mating.

Tony

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