John, The melanistic adult I found was kept for filming purposes. During that time the snake deficated and inspection revealed its diet to be birds. It was found in the rocks at the oceans edge. Exactly where you would expect birds to forage for food. The babies I located were on a different island the following year and were all found at a much higher elevation and well removed from the waters edge. They were all found sunning themselves on rock outcrops. I did not locate any adults and suspect that their diet changes as adults and they therefore move down to areas to better ambush birds (or move up into trees as I believe anomala to be much more arboreal than schrenki). Again, I have done very little work on any of the korean species up until this point. Now that you guys have given me the bug, I will try to do much more constructive research and post my findings. Like most people, the only thing i lack is enough time to do all the things I want to do but this year i have placed this task high on my priorities.

Thanks, Don

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