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Description
A very slender snake with a flat, distinct head and a long tail.
The body is bright green to olive, usually with dark spots on the bars
on the forebody, becoming grey-bronze towards the rear.
The head is green or blue-green.
Green Water Snake
Description
The green water snake is a relatively large
snake with a greenish gray or olive brown
color on its dorsal side.
Common Egg-eater
Description
The few teeth it has are solid and harmless.
No fangs.
Wide variation in pattern and colour; ranging from browns and greens to solid dark grey.
V-shaped dark mark on neck; the top of which points to the snout.
Fairly slender snake with small head that is rounded at the snout.
Belly usually cream in brown coloured snakes and white in grey ones.
Size ranges from .5metres to 1.5metres in length.
Often confused with the Night Adder
Cape Wolf Snake
Description
It has a flattened head.
Colouration is usually uniform dark brown to black,
sometimes with each scale white-tipped and a white- or
black-speckled belly.
Southern African Python
Description
The length of an Afican Rock Python ranges from 3 to 6 feet and they eat rodents almost exclusively,
feeding primarily on several species of native African rodents, including rats, gerbils, and gerboas.
They are most active at night, when they hunt for their food.
To facilitate nocturnal hunting the pythons have eyes that are adapted to dim light.
Another adaptation that helps the python in their nocturnal hunting is the heat sensitive organs located in
the scales bordering in the python's mouth.
These organs enable it to locate warm-blooded prey in complete darkness.
Mildly Venomous
Bibrons Burrowing Asp
Striped Skaapsteker
Eastern Tiger Snake
Herald Snake
Common Centipede-eater
Purple-glossed Snake
Shield-nose Snake
Bicoloured Quill-snouted Snake
Western stripe-bellied sand snake
Description
The Western stripe-bellied sand snake can be identified by its slender
head, large eyes, yellow underside, the stripes down the length of its body
and strictly diurnal lifestyle.
It grows to an average length of 1 meter and a maximum length of 1.4
meters.
Although venomous is not dangerous to man.
Bibron's Burrowing Asp
Description
The color pattern consists of a purplish-brown, gray or black ground color, often with a
purplish sheen. The belly can be brownish, white or pale in color, with a series of dark
blotches. In specimens with a lighter belly coloration, this may also include two or three scale
rows on the flanks
Bite
Bite causes immediate pain and local swelling
Venom
Mild Neurotoxic - nausea, dry throat, and dizziness
Striped Skaapsteker
Description
Grey to pale olive grey or brown with three well-defined black-edged
stripes that extend along the entire body
The venom of this snake is weak and unlikely to have any effect on man.
Venom
Neurotoxic - nausea, dry throat, and dizziness
Eastern Tiger Snake
Description
The patterning is darker bands, strongly contrasting or indistinct, which
are pale to very dark in colour.
Coloration is composed of olive, yellow, orange-brown, or jet-black, the
underside of the snake is lighter and yellow or orange
Venom
Neurotoxic - nausea, dry throat, and dizziness
Herald Snake
Description
Some specimens of this snake have unmistakable red or orange lips, but often this
feature is absent and the lips are cream or white.
However, this snake always has black temples and fine white speckles on the brown
to grey body.
Virtually no effect on man.
Common Centipede-eater
Description
The most common one found in this area is the black-headed
Cape centipede eater which has a venom which is very
effective on centipedes but harmless to humans.
Purple-glossed Snake