Habitat seems to be where they are., but I can never completely get that through my head. For an outsider who has never seen the heart of prime or formerly prime-is there lots of good habitat left?- Texas Indigo habitat, it is hard to picture that they even exist in the part of Texas where they do.I would more easily picture them in eastern Texas where they don't live and apparently haven't for a long time, even without man's disturbance. I have always just thought of indigos as being semitropical, humidity loving animals. I have never seen the supposed type habitat of South Texas riparian areas of thornbush etc, but I now realize that I imagined them to be far "greener" areas than they really are just because the "type" drymarchon species in my head is the couperi, which is totally wrong, . So when people talked about seeing them crossing the road at lake Amistad,I was always skeptical and thought they must be just lost, wanderering individuals who happened to survive for awhile.And even when I saw a photo of a nice healthy looking one at the Seminole Indian Campground parking lot in very desert habitat, I always pictured these guys as lost stragglers. I just can't picture them living there cosistently,and successfully but apparently they do.Sort of like Kaulfeld's original bias of where he thought he would find subocularis.But alterna, subocularis and a big black indigo in the same habitat-my brain still doesn't want to accept it. Sure is fun though when folks come up with photos like that or the ones Joe Forks got last year. thanks again for sharing them and for the folks sharing their insights.

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• Big Indigo pic, from today. - RioBravoReptiles, Fri Mar 11 19:56:15 2005
• Whoa! - Doug T, Sat Mar 12 00:32:29 2005
• Count the Scales.... - Doug T, Sun Mar 13 00:05:21 2005
• RE: Count the Scales.... - dan felice, Sun Mar 13 17:16:23 2005
• RE: Count the Scales.... - Eric East, Sun Mar 13 18:27:23 2005
• actually the labials say Texas - DeanAlessandrini, Sun Mar 13 20:26:54 2005
• As usual, Dean is the man...NP - Chuck_Elliott, Sun Mar 13 21:26:29 2005
• Well, that's a hell of a complment coming from the SJ snake man... - DeanAlessandrini, Sun Mar 13 22:34:04 2005
• RE: Well, that's a hell of a complment coming from the SJ snake man... - dan felice, Mon Mar 14 05:28:02 2005
• RE: As usual, Dean is the man...NP - frankdunham, Mon Mar 14 11:12:08 2005
• Personally, - DeanAlessandrini, Mon Mar 14 14:47:03 2005
• RE: Personally, - frankdunham, Mon Mar 14 15:45:20 2005
• Great visual Dean...thank you... - fred albury, Mon Mar 14 20:49:04 2005
• Clearly an TXN..and one for Deanno - dryguy, Tue Mar 15 08:18:32 2005
• RE: Habitat for Indigo in Texas. - RioBravoReptiles, Tue Mar 15 08:51:06 2005
• RE: Habitat for Indigo in Texas. - frankdunham, Tue Mar 15 09:38:40 2005
• RE: Habitat for Indigo in Texas. - antelope, Tue Mar 15 19:16:59 2005
• RE: Habitat for Indigo in Texas. - antelope, Wed Mar 16 00:56:52 2005
• RE: Habitat for Indigo in Texas. - antelope, Wed Mar 16 01:00:12 2005
• RE: Habitat for Indigo in Texas. - antelope, Wed Mar 16 01:02:27 2005
• RE: Habitat for Indigo in Texas. - antelope, Wed Mar 16 01:09:40 2005
• RE: Habitat for Indigo in Texas. - Dryguy, Thu Mar 17 03:38:08 2005
• comment? - DeanAlessandrini, Tue Mar 15 17:25:09 2005
• RE: comment? - crimsonking, Wed Mar 23 21:34:21 2005