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Bug-eyed House Snake (Boaedon mentalis) from Capri

Bug-eyed House Snake (Boaedon mentalis) from Caprivi, Namibia. A harmless contrictor.

Boomslang (Dispholidus typus kivuensis) from the D

Boomslang (Dispholidus typus kivuensis) from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Highly venomous.

Venomous Snake Handling Bootcamp at @exotic_animal

Venomous Snake Handling Bootcamp at @exotic_animal_world_ . Luke Kemp teaching double hooking using an exceptionally large Puff Adder.
(The snake is 1.18 m long)

The Namib Sand Snake (Psammophis namibensis) - mil

The Namib Sand Snake (Psammophis namibensis) - mildly venomous. These attractive diurnal snakes are incredibly quick and if grabbed by the tail will spin and snap a piece off to escape.

West African Carpet Viper (Echis ocellatus). This

West African Carpet Viper (Echis ocellatus). This snake accounts for the majority of snakebite fatalities in Africa. Largely restricted to the southern parts of West Africa and averages 30 cm in length.

We're back in the Western Cape this weekend with t

We're back in the Western Cape this weekend with two back-to-back courses.

We’ll be running our Snake Awareness, First aid for Snakebite and Venomous Snake Handling course on the 24th of September and our follow-on course the Venomous Snake Handling Bootcamp on the 25th.

If you’re interested to learn more about snakes, what to do in encounters, first aid for snakebite and how to catch and release them using safe protocols, then join us!

Booking is essential and can be done directly via our website (link in bio) or email Bianca on fin@asiorg.co.za for details.

The Rhombic Night Adder (Causus rhombeatus) reache

The Rhombic Night Adder (Causus rhombeatus) reaches 1 m in length and although not considered potentially lethal, can inflict a serious bite that may require that the victim is hospitalised.

It has a cytotoxic venom that causes pain, swelling and discolouration but tissue damage is rare. Victims are given fluids and pain medication and need to rest for up to two weeks. There is no antivenom for the bite of this snake but not considered potentially lethal.

Rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus). A shy snake tha

Rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus). A shy snake that is quick to escape down a hole but if cornered it may spit while spreading a hood. The throat usually has one, two or three light bands and the body scales are heavily keeled. Though considered to be one of our highly venomous snakes, the last recorded fatality was over 40 years ago.

In many of our snake species there is a great deal

In many of our snake species there is a great deal of colour variation, making identification quite difficult. The Boomslang, Cape Cobra and Mole Snake come to mind.
Boomslang hatchlings measure 29 - 38 cm in length and are largely grey to brown with a large emerald eye (See photographs 1 - 3). They may have quite a bit of yellow in the lower neck region as well blue markings between the neck scales, that are more visible once the snake inflates the neck. The eye is bright emerald green initially, but soon fades with age.
This snake largely retains these colours for most of the first year and only when it gets to close to 1 m does it change into subadult colours and with the eyes changing colour to a brownish green colour. Compared with many other snakes, the head is large and stubby and the eyes very big. At this stage the strong keels on the body scales are visible. Subadults are largely soft shades of brown or green as can be seen in photographs 4 - 6. As they grow and after a few more sheds they assume the adult colours.
Females are largely brown and males green, but not always. Individuals from the Western Cape often have a dark brown or even blackish band down the back with lighter brown sides (photograph 7) or in Gauteng or elsewhere a more plain dark brown overall colour ( photograph 8 ).
Adult males vary tremendously in colour with most males from KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Mozambique, Eswatini, Gauteng, Limpopo, Northwest Province, the Northern Cape and elsewhere further north being bright green in colour (photograph 9) or bright green with black between the scales (photograph 10). In the Western and Eastern Cape males are usually blackish above with yellow, green or even orange sides (photographs 11 and 12). Adult Boomslang have dark eyes.
Although it is generally said that this is one of the snakes where we can distinguish between males and females by looking at the colour of the snake, it is mostly so but not always. We do see green females and brown males from time to time.
Young Boomslang (under 1 m in length) are never bright green in colour and have keeled body scales which the harmless green snakes and Green Mamba do not have.

An unusually-marked adult Mole Snake (Pseudaspis c

An unusually-marked adult Mole Snake (Pseudaspis cana). This snake averages around 60 cm – 1,2 m but may reach a length of 2 m in the Western Cape. It is a non-venomous constrictor that feeds on rodents and is often found in mole rat burrows. This day-active snake varies in colour from pitch black to dark grey, dark brown, brick red or light brown.

Cape Cobra (Naja nivea) There is a great deal of

Cape Cobra (Naja nivea)

There is a great deal of colour variation in a variety of snakes and especially so in the Cape Cobra. They vary from near black to chocolate brown, medium brown, orange, light brown, yellow or any of those colour varieties with speckles.

Juveniles are largely a brown to yellow colour with a broad dark band on the throat that fades with age. While one colour may be common in an area, other colour varieties may also be found there.

This is a highly venomous snake with a potent neurotoxic venom.

ASI Easy ID - Many-spotted Reed Snake (Amplorhinus

ASI Easy ID - Many-spotted Reed Snake (Amplorhinus multimaculatus)

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