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SAVED A RED HEAD BEAKED SNAKE

Category: 4. Colubridae - TYPICAL SNAKES | Date: Nov 22 2007 | By: admin

Yesterday afternoon we rescued a Red Head Beaked Snake Rhamphiophis rubropunctatus from Mr. Richard Bennett’s house in Watamu. It had first been wrongly identified as a Black Mamba Dendroaspis polylepis by the house staff. Fortunately it was not killed and we were called to remove it, just goes to show that even a snake as docile as the Red Head Beaked Snake can very easily be killed just for looking similar to a dangerous one. The snake was released into the wild about half a kilometre behind the snake farm. Photo by Mike Dobiey.

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One Response to “SAVED A RED HEAD BEAKED SNAKE”

F. J. PECHIR, on 22 Nov 2007

Beautiful snake! Good job in saving it from being killed. But even the dangerous snakes must be appreciated and rescued from a sure death by people that do not know about their value in nature.

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