yes, i have located keelbacks down south near masan (2nd and 3rd pics) and see them around my farm (which is way up north) (1st pic)on a regular basis and the colors are all fairly typical of the ones in the pics. Not nearly as variable as E. dione.

The most common snakes I locate are Gloydius, E dione and Rhabdophis. I do not really field hunt them because they are not supposed to be kept but did some field work while filming a tv series here in korea. I commonly see them though while working around the house or horse riding in the hills behind my place.

I normally am too busy with the reptiles i import and breed at my facility but here recently i have had an interest in doing some work with E. dione (pertaning to locating and photographing various localities to see if there is pattern colors that are locality specific or if it is simply a highly variable species). I also was hoping to go back to an island that we visited west of inchon. While filming I located a melanistic (of sorts) E. schrenki and I wanted to do a follow-up to see if i could locate any others with the same hyper melanism. My line of thinking is that due to the cooler climate of the island, perhaps the population has evolved the darker coloring to help with heat absorption. I will post some pics of it (i had posted a few before some time back on another forum). Anyway, now with this original post, I am building a bit of an interest to see if I can locate any E. davidi.

well....

The wife is needing the PC now so I will post some pics/replies later.

Thanks, Don

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