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Please help to identify
by nazm » Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:10 pm
Hi guys. What snake is this? Sorry for the crappy cell phone pic! Caught in the Gauteng area:
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Re: Please help to identify
by Mitton » Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:13 pm
Is that the only picture you have?
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Re: Please help to identify
by Mehelya » Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:38 pm
No chances of getting some other pics? Personally, that doesn't look indiginous to me though...
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Re: Please help to identify
by monopeltis » Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:01 pm
backstory to this? It was found? It's just a picture you have seen? Where was it?
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Re: Please help to identify
by nazm » Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:37 pm
It was caught at our offices today in Gauteng. Guy that caught it said it was a Cape Cobra but I am not so sure. Just wanted to ID it.
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Re: Please help to identify
by monopeltis » Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:49 pm
looks like skin and bones and on it's deathbed what ever it is...
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Re: Please help to identify
by Smeegle » Fri Dec 16, 2011 7:31 am
A Cape Cobra in Gauteng?
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Re: Please help to identify
by Bushviper » Fri Dec 16, 2011 8:15 am
Thats not a Cape cobra but a harmless ratsnake.
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Re: Please help to identify
by nazm » Fri Dec 16, 2011 8:29 am
Bushviper wrote:Thats not a Cape cobra but a harmless ratsnake.
That's what I thought. It was super calm when he caught it and that's what surprised me. I thought a wild snake would do everything in its power to get away.
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Re: Please help to identify
by Kev » Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:09 am
What’s a guy doing catching snakes if he can’t tell the difference between a rat snake and a cobra? 
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Re: Please help to identify
by nazm » Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:41 am
Kev wrote:What’s a guy doing catching snakes if he can’t tell the difference between a rat snake and a cobra?
Perhaps he knows EXACTLY what he is doing. If you know what I mean.
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