Don't know about Essex, i've heard of one in Kent i think but it wouldn't surprise me, so many kept, so many escaped and so many turn up fine years later so there's no reason why they shouldn't also be breeding.
is the weather there warm enough and at the right time and for the proper length of time to make reproduction feasible?
how many egg laying herps are there in the u.k.?
we have an isolated population just south of me in kentucky of corns... naturally there of course... i'd like to go down and find me one... but kentucky is far different than here where i live right?
we have long, hot summers here on the ohio river just a stone's throw away from kentucky... i don't think it's as hot or hot for as long a duration there in the u.k. as it is here... but corns will seek out proper places to lay... it's possible ...
is the weather there warm enough and at the right time and for the proper length of time to make reproduction feasible?
how many egg laying herps are there in the u.k.?
we have an isolated population just south of me in kentucky of corns... naturally there of course... i'd like to go down and find me one... but kentucky is far different than here where i live right?
we have long, hot summers here on the ohio river just a stone's throw away from kentucky... i don't think it's as hot or hot for as long a duration there in the u.k. as it is here... but corns will seek out proper places to lay... it's possible ...
I was thinking that same think my self, with the aesculapian snake in the zoo grounds, as much as there is bad weather, when its a nice day and esepcially during the summer is its quite hot with some areas for laying which are sheltered from the wind but exposed to the sun so i think it may be able to hatch but may take slightly longer if the temps are that little bit lower,
either way it must be working coz they have been there since the late 1960's lol
I've heard ffrom a couple of sources that there is a colony in Essex, although as they are solitary, a colony seems unlikely. But have heard from good sources that they are in Essex but the location, quite rightly, won't be revealed by those who know.
A couple of years back I went with to an animal rescue place in Essex with a friend, as he was rehoming a CRB from their. While speaking to the staff and having a look round, they said that on a few occasions they have had hatchling corns brought in to them having been found in gardens, etc, the odd thing being that they still had the umbilical cord attached. Given that this drops off very soon after hatching, this would strongly suggest at least one clutch of eggs which successfully hatched in the wild. Whether this is from a small breeding group, a pair, or a gravid female who escaped or was released is not clear.
i once found a HUGE salmon pink bird eatter.....well it was behind a fridge of my mates....he lost it as a sling 3 years ago and it seems it survived and lived off sliver fish and woodlice
The thought of such a spider behind my fridge makes my bowels loosen. I can only sleep at night with the reassurance that beasts such as they die in our cold climate. Now I must resort to drugging myself for rest.
The thought of such a spider behind my fridge makes my bowels loosen. I can only sleep at night with the reassurance that beasts such as they die in our cold climate. Now I must resort to drugging myself for rest.
I heard there are a few garter populations scaterd around the uk, and roath park lake in cardiff has read ear sliders and yellow painted sliders living in there they have even found eggs but no hatchlings and there was even a soft shell turtle found in there too.
They were escapes, like the wallabies, aesculapians, coypu and other species mentioned earlier!
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