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AGILIS ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1689 |
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Tom Omlette ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Nov 2013 Location: Stoke on Trent Status: Offline Points: 449 |
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I've sometimes wondered the same thing Keith. In Bernard Cornwell's Arthur trilogy (well worth a read by the way), whenever one of the druids needs a viper they've been out and caught a handful within minutes. Apart from the fact that those are fantasy stories lol, I suspect adders were more widespread and abundant before all their habitat was turned into pastureland, agricultural land or urbanised.
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GemmaJF ![]() Admin Group ![]() ![]() Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Location: Essex Status: Offline Points: 4341 |
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I think they definitely had a heyday, perhaps at the start of woodland clearance in the UK. New habitat would have been created constantly, so I suspect their numbers soared for a while in the UK.
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