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Concern about the Californian chain snake: Invasive snake is spreading in Germany

2022-12-29T17:15:29.191Z


Concern about the Californian chain snake: Invasive snake is spreading in Germany Created: 12/29/2022, 6:03 p.m By: Patrick Mayer It can also have two heads: a Californian chain snake at a reptile exhibition in Switzerland in 2018. (Archive photo) © Laurent Gillieron/KEYSTONE/dpa A species of snake is discovered in Germany that actually comes from the USA. Researchers warn that the adder has b


Concern about the Californian chain snake: Invasive snake is spreading in Germany

Created: 12/29/2022, 6:03 p.m

By: Patrick Mayer

It can also have two heads: a Californian chain snake at a reptile exhibition in Switzerland in 2018. (Archive photo) © Laurent Gillieron/KEYSTONE/dpa

A species of snake is discovered in Germany that actually comes from the USA.

Researchers warn that the adder has been sighted in two cities in Baden-Württemberg.

Munich – The Lampropeltis californiae is considered a skilled hunter.

The term stands for the California chain snake, a snake species that is usually native to the far western United States (California and Oregon) and northwestern Mexico.

Californian chain snake: New snake species discovered in Baden-Württemberg

But: Now the Californian chain snake, which can grow up to one and a half meters tall, has apparently also arrived in Germany.

Because: As the

German Press Agency (dpa)

reports, two specimens of the snake were recently sighted near Offenburg in southern Baden and near Freiburg im Breisgau.

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As a non-native species, the Californian chain snake could at least endanger the stocks of the green lizard on the Kaiserstuhl and the sand lizard, explained Hubert Laufer from the Association for Amphibian and Reptile Biotope Protection Baden-Württemberg (ABS for short), according to the report.

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Because: The California chain snake hunts other reptiles such as lizards, small mammals such as mice and sometimes also birds.

With this property, they have almost wiped out the reptile species originally native to the Spanish Canary Island of Gran Canaria, writes the

dpa

.

California chain snake: snake dangerous for native reptile species?

And: According to Laufer, this adder also takes on other snakes in order to eat them.

The authorities of the European Union (EU) have already registered that they can be dangerous to native species - and have issued bans.

For example, the Californian chain snake is banned from being traded and bred throughout the EU.

It has been on the so-called Union list of invasive species since the beginning of August.

A species is invasive when it spreads and thereby endangers the biodiversity of other local animal and plant species, writes the

Südwestpresse (SWP)

.

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According to the German Society for Herpetology and Terrarium Science (DGHT), the snake is considered a "beginner snake" for hobby breeders and is therefore easy to keep.

In any case, it is completely harmless to humans.

The DGHT therefore finds the ban superfluous.

California chain snake: EU authorities are monitoring its spread

But: As the

dpa

further reports, since 1960 invasive species have caused losses in agriculture and forestry as well as in infrastructure or through the burden on health systems of at least 976 billion euros.

Apparently, the authorities in this country are also paying close attention to the development and spread of the Californian chain snake.

(pm)

Source: merkur

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