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Spotting

Description:

Appears to be about 20-30cm long, dark brown markings along body, but not quite diamond shaped. Thin v marking on head and a thicker v marking behind the neck.

Notes:

Looks like either a night adder or egg eater. Not certain.

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2 Comments

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 8 years ago

Welcome to Project Noah. Nice spotting.

AshleyT
AshleyT 8 years ago

Egg-eater was my first impression as well, and I'm fairly confident about calling it a common egg-eater, Dasypeltis scabra. Cool find!

BiancaBotha
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BiancaBotha

Makhado Local Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa

Spotted on Dec 17, 2015
Submitted on Dec 17, 2015

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