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    Posted: 17 Nov 2012 at 11:34pm
http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/forums/reptile-and-amphibian-forums/106922-why-so-pale.html

edit - Out of interest how many people feel that this adder is over exposed or has sunlight making it look pale when it is just a normal coloured adder?

normal coloured adder






Edited by herpetologic2 - 23 Nov 2012 at 2:45pm
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote will Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Nov 2012 at 9:57am
Hi Tim, amazing animal - surprised it has survived so long as it must stick out like the proverbial sore whatsit.  It looks hypomelanistic to me, rather than a complete 'albino', but I'm no expert.  Extremely rare find, in any case!
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Yeah amazing,

let's hope the guy that photographed it didn't log the coodinates into the record pool otherwise it'll be gone by next year LOL

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LOLyou're not wrong, Rob!
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Stunning snake!

Looks like there is black in the eye which I 'think'? would make it not an albino? 

What happens if a black adder and a white adder mate? 
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you get a zebradder LOL
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote herpetologic2 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Nov 2012 at 6:03pm
Originally posted by Robert V Robert V wrote:

Yeah amazing,

let's hope the guy that photographed it didn't log the coodinates into the record pool otherwise it'll be gone by next year LOL


Libel laws are a wonderful thing Rob retract that statement as it is not true. do the right thing 

thanks 

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Robert V Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Nov 2012 at 5:25pm

General comment,

We won't know whether it is gone until next year will we?
 
And besides, have anyone tested whether the statement is true / could be true?
 
Until such time as a comprehensive test has been undertaken and proven conclusively that the submission of an individual record / individual reptile could not lead to the reptile being tracked and captured then it is impossible to refute that the concept / idea is true / or could be true.
 
Further, Libel (for the misguided) laws are where a slanderous statement is made by an individual in writing, which impunes a third party's / another person's (possessive) reputation  or / and lead others to question a third party's reputation.
 
So far as this thread is concerned, I haven't mentioned anyone.
 
I have however questioned the wisdom of a concept whereby records are sold of individual reptile's locations when just about everyone in the herp knows that there exists a black market for the illegal selling / trading of such creatures.
 
If the cap fits anyone, I suggest they wear it, or admit that they are wrong.
 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote herpetologic2 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Nov 2012 at 2:39pm
Rob, 
You have singled out one recording system why not the others? NBN, Living Record, RAUK, Sliding Scales, Add an Adder, RSPB garden surveys, iSpot, Indicia, iRecord the list goes on.

I take it as a dig at me to suggest that somehow the Record Pool would lead to animals being taken from the wild to be sold on the black market which there is very little evidence of such a market anyw way.

So until such time that you can prove that is the case please amend your earlier statement..... 
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