Parameters of leucocytal blood system of vipers - Vipera berus berus, V. B. Nikolskii and V. Renardi bashkirovi in the serpentarium

The leukocytal blood indices of the vipers: females of Vipera berus berus and V. b. nikolskii, who gave birth in the serpentarium and their posterity, and females of V. renardi bashkirovi kept in the serpentarium have been studied. The underyearlings of V. b. berus differed from females that gave them birth with a reduced content of heterophils, the underyearlings of V. b. nikolskii differed with a reduced content of azurophils. The leukocytal profile of V. b. berus and V. b. nikolskii females statistically did not differ, that indicated formation of the similar adaptive reactions of two subspecies of V. berus. Integral leukocytal indices were used to identify the specific adaptive reaction to the serpentarium conditions for females of V. r. bashkirovi - the taxon combined the characteristics of V. berus and V. renardi. V. r. bashkirovi compared with V. b. berus has statistically much lower part of heterophiles in the leukocytal formula, values of the leukocyte shift index and the ratio index of heterophiles and lymphocytes, and much higher part of the values of lymphocyte-granulocytal index and the ratio index of lymphocytes and eosinophils. Statistically significant differences in the leukocytal blood parameters of V. b. berus compared with V. b. nikolskii and V. b. nikolskii compared with V. r. bashkirovi are not revealed.