Ada Bojana V. ammodytes locality?

Hello guys! Do anyone here know anyone who keeps and breeds Ada Bojana locality of V.ammodytes?
This is very interesting locality and any info would be greatly appreciated

Thanks,
Anze

Any more info as thats not a locality I know.

I never saw them in person. But as I heard/red they are "dwarfish" form of Vipera ammodytes ammodytes subspecies and therefore long approx 40-50cm. They are very beautiful coloured too. At this link you can find some pictures: http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/275600167gPIinC?start=24

I have caught a V. ammodytes on the Island of Ada. That one was the same size as any other V. ammodytes I have encountered in the nature. It was more red then the species in general are.

Hi Anze,
yes I know some people that breed them actually and has breed them in the past and the future. Actualy you can find a CB couple in a german forum. I send you the link on PM.
I was on Ada some years ago, I think, the looks not very differend to the other ammodytes from the ,, mainland´´around there. Some are smaler, but you can find also bigger one there. Also you can find smal ammodytes on the main land.... In this area the ammodytes are very polymorph in coloration. Not only from Ada! One fact is very intressting: Some of them lay in trees! Ok, you can find other european Vipers also in smal trees, but on Ada it is very often seen! Big areas of this ,,Island´´ are swamps, and the ammodytes lay on the trees over the water. This Island don´t looks like a ,,typical´´ ammodytes Habitat.
You will see, also the lizzards in the same position! So, you can imagine wy the doing that...

Well, THANK YOU all! I really appreciate your answers and help. I am planing to visit Ada island this year so maybe I get some view in the population myself.

Cheers!
Anze

Hello Anze,

Ada Bojana is one of the places that I have been visiting each year during my trips to Montenegro for almost 40 years now.
The island is made of sand washed there by the River Bojana that flows there from Lake Skutari, isolated from the mainland only by two branches of the River Bojana. The habitat is very untypical for V. ammodytes, especially from V. amm. habitat where you live. Swamp in parts of the island, riparian forest in most parts.
The average size of V. amm. is even smaller than in populations on the mainland and there average size is relatively small in comparison to most northern V. amm. I rarely found adult V. amm. on Ada that were over 50cm. long. They can have almost any color there that is possible in V. amm., many animals are yellowish or reddish. If you look through my posts in this forum you can find some photos of Ada-Ammod (Scutari-Ammodytes-thread by Mario Lutz, May 2008).
On that island V.ammod. can often be found very close to water and when disturbed escape into the water like Natrix and sometimes even dive away. You can even find them in dense forest with hardly any sunny spots.
Food consists mainly of Podarcis-lizards, small mammals and birds but I have also seen them eat frogs, snakes (a small Z. longissimus and a small Dolichophis caspius) and Anguis fragilis there.
That is an interesting habitat but if you are used to “normal” V. amm. habitat like in your place you must get accustomed to it though the population of V. amm. is quite dense.
Like Peter writes you can often find them on bushes and small trees (mainly if it is very warm) but usually they are on the ground like other V. amm.

Hello Mique,

Be careful with those tongues and other tools that might be used for catching snakes. Don´t let yourself get caught with them. Reptiles, and for a few years now V. ammod. too, are protected by law in Montenegro. And if you come across the (for you) wrong policeman or ranger you might get problems.

Best wishes,
Rainer

Rainer Fesser wrote:

Hello Mique,

Be careful with those tongues and other tools that might be used for catching snakes. Don´t let yourself get caught with them. Reptiles, and for a few years now V. ammod. too, are protected by law in Montenegro. And if you come across the (for you) wrong policeman or ranger you might get problems.

Best wishes,
Rainer

I did not know that.. Really good to know, thank you for telling me.