Wildlife Spotting

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KarenL

This does sound like an excellent program & shows what can be achieved with minimal resources. Hopefully in time it will also educate the local community & change the culture of killing these wonderful creatures where it isn't absolutely necessary.

Thats true, I found it an excellent project in terms of protecting reptiles, I wish it could be expanded to save more snakes

Sounds like a good program. People the world over kill snakes as a matter of course without considering the important role they play as an integral and fascinating part of nature.

My visit and subsquent posting of these snakes was the desire to promote the villages, where people are doing an important work to protect the snakes and other reptiles despite the fact that many of the caretakers have never been to school (many may not be able to read and write). But found a passion in the reptiles and decided to save them from the communities which are bent on Killing them. At each of the villages you are required to pay about US $2 meant to maintain the reptiles. They caretakers buy goats, chicken and collect frogs to feed the snakes

All the snakes I posted naturally have their habitat in Uganda. Both snakes at the Snake Village and the reptile village were capture in people's gardens and forests mainly around lake victoria in Uganda. The two projects basically focus on keepin the reptails safe since members of the community Kill them when ever they find them. One characteristic of this Cobra is it spits, but this is only in adults. This was young and couldnt spit.

I think Uganda Reptile Village is the same as referenced above in the first comment. They have Naja melanoleuca.

HemaShah

I find snakes very fascinating. The conservationist Joy Adamson who lived in Kenya was so terrified of these snakes that she had each and every one of them killed on her property. In fact one of the born Free Lions "Ugas" became blind in one eye because of an encounter with a spitting cobra. The movie " I Dream Of Africa" shows a little boys obsession with snakes. They show his beautiful collection of African Snakes. It is quite sad though,because at the end of the movie he gets bit by one of his snakes. After he dies ,his family releases his beautiful collection of snakes back in the river. George Adamson talks about big Cobras ,at his Kora reserve, that can meet your eye level when their hoods are extended .

HemaShah

amazing!

ChimeTsetan

for me too, it looks like a king... head shape and the patterns are similar.

Of the 4 Najas occurring in Uganda (naturally): ashei, haje, melanoleuca, and nigricollis, I think it is looks most like Naja melanoleuca. That's my guess.

Atul

surely looks like a King cobra ,the pattern on it is like a king cobras ,i agree on that with Anjali. but as Daniele said king cobras are not found in africa!!

Nabeel Ramses Mubarak

Looks to me like a Spitting Cobra (Naja nigricollis) or mabye a Forest cobra (Naja melanoleuca)

http://www.megasphera.cz/africanvenomoussnakes/_private/photo_snakes%20AFR.htm .. This is a link for reference

Oh! Then I'm wrong ..thanks for the link Daniele :-)

DanielePralong

I see you point Anjali:-) However pmagelah has indicated elsewhere that these snakes are captured locally. Maybe he can confirm this here. Check this spotting: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/8031071

Or maybe its a Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) like u had earlier suggested...

Maybe, its a captive one..Because the pattern on the snake looks very similar ..I could be wrong..

DanielePralong

Anjali, the king cobra is not found in Africa :-(

It looks more like the King from what I have seen in India...

@Allen.hoof thank you, actually when I check wikipedia it is a cobra. Personally its one of those snakes I fear most

DanielePralong

It looks like the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje)... I hope someone can confirm!

Allen Hoof

I do NOT have any credentials in herpetology, but it looks like the sort of thing I would call a cobra