Saving Snakes

Category: 4. Colubridae - TYPICAL SNAKES | Date: Nov 28 2007 | By: admin

This morning an Eastern Stripe Bellied Sand Snake Psammophis orientalis was brought in to the Snake Farm by one of the villagers from Jimba, an area on the way to Gede, about 5 km West of Bio-Ken. It had been caught in a village house where it had gone to sleep for the night. The Stripe Bellied Sand Snakes in the Watamu - Malindi area belong to the Eastern group and differ from the ones found in the Northern part of Kenya and especially the Rift Valley. These are known as the Northern Stripe Bellied Sand Snake Psammophis sudanensis and you can tell them apart by the fact that P. orientalis has no white marks while P. sudanensis has several. The ESB Sand Snake is probably the third most common snake in our immediate area. The Snake was released into the wild in the bush behind Bio-Ken today.

Photo by Anthony Childs (Reference)

Technorati : Eastern Stripe Bellied Sand Snake, Northern Stripe Bellied Sand Snake, Psammophis orientalis, Psammophis sudanensis

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