beautiful visitor

beautiful visitor

Postby avdmerwe » Sun Feb 22, 2015 8:14 pm

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Hi please confirm this is a semiornate snake
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Re: beautiful visitor

Postby Westley Price » Sun Feb 22, 2015 8:17 pm

Beautiful visitor for sure, but thats a Mozambique Spitting Cobra.
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Re: beautiful visitor

Postby Durban Keeper » Sun Feb 22, 2015 10:17 pm

Lovely, but with all due respect, how do you confuse those two!!!
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Re: beautiful visitor

Postby Ruan Stander » Tue Feb 24, 2015 9:57 pm

Gorgeous. Deadly too.
Where in Limpopo are you based ?
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Re: beautiful visitor

Postby avdmerwe » Wed Feb 25, 2015 5:30 pm

Hi guys I stay out in Hoedspruit. I reference 2 books Field guide to snakes by Bill Branch and Complete Guide to snakes of Southern Africa by Johan Marais. The reason for my id was the behaviour of the snake. It was not aggresive at all even when enticed, it was active during daytime, we found it relatively high up in a tree hole. Was very quick to move away did not even try to spit. Relatively long but thin snake. It also did not have the bluntness of the Mfezi's nose and not the robustness in size. But I am no expert, so I would not know
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Re: beautiful visitor

Postby Westley Price » Thu Feb 26, 2015 7:40 am

IDing snakes from books dont always work well because you only have one or two photos of each species, although that's is the first place we all start and the easiest place to start.

Once you have seen a bunch of snakes in the field you will quickly learn how to ID most without the help of your books.

Just be careful in the future approaching a snake before you have an accurate ID. It could have ended badly for you had the snake spit in your eyes. Enticing/teasing any snake is never a good idea.
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