Please help me identify this fella

Please help me identify this fella

Postby Sparky0247 » Mon Nov 17, 2014 11:16 am

Hi,

Please can you help me idfentify this chap that was found in our empty pool. Smallholding near Krugersdorp.

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Re: Please help me identify this fella

Postby Mitton » Mon Nov 17, 2014 11:20 am

That is a young Mole Snake, Pseudaspis cana.
Non venomous but can give a nasty painful bite.
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Re: Please help me identify this fella

Postby Sparky0247 » Mon Nov 17, 2014 11:26 am

Thank you. Not familiar with that colouring. It was acting quite agressively when I accidentally came too near, but I left it alone. It seems to find its way in and out of the pool by itself.
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