Common File Snake
A large, secretive snake that spends much of its life underground, emerging on warm summer nights. It feeds on frogs, rodents and snakes including venomous ones.
A large, secretive snake that spends much of its life underground, emerging on warm summer nights. It feeds on frogs, rodents and snakes including venomous ones.
The Herald Snake, also known as the Red-lipped or White-lipped Snake, is nocturnal and averages 30-50 cm in length. It is olive-brown to grey in colour, usually with white flecks on the body and with iridescent black temples.
This is one of the most common and widespread snakes in Africa. There are a few Egg-eaters in Africa with quite similar patterns.
The Olive Grass Snake is the largest grass snake in Africa, averaging 1-1,5 m but reaching 1,8 m in length. It is a slender, fast-moving snake that is quick to disappear when disturbed. It usually moves with the first third of the body raised off the ground in a similar manner to the Black Mamba or Boomslang.
This is one of the most common and widespread snakes in Africa. It varies in colour from black to brown, olive-green, russet-red and beige. It has a light stripe from the nose through the top of the eye to the back of the head, a unique feature of the Brown House Snakes.
The Common Purple-glossed Snake is a large fossorial snake, averaging 50–75 cm in length. It lives underground or in thick leaf litter where it hunts for lizards and snakes.
A colourful nocturnal snake that is orange-pink to salmon pink above with 52 – 75 dark blotches on the body and tail. It inhabits rocky areas or hides under the bark of trees.
A long and slender snake that averages 50-80 cm with a maximum length of 1 m. There are two or three distinct pale crossbars on the sides of the head.
An inoffensive nocturnal snake that inhabits rocky outcrops in moist savanna. It is a small snake that averages 30 cm with a maximum length of 43.3 cm.
A small thread snake that averages 20 cm with a maximum length of 32.2 cm. Unlike many of the other blackish thread snakes this one is light brown to purplish brown or pink in colour and with a paler belly.