Green Mamba

Another one from My South Africa trip

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was this guy aggressive at all towards you?

Beautiful color.

nice shot

I'd need a very long lens to get a pic of that fella. You did fine.

It makes me nervous just looking at the photo!

Beautiful! hat kind of lens did you use?

Julius

very nice shot

bigcountry wrote in post #11908225
was this guy aggressive at all towards you?

Green Mambas are generally not aggressive; its the black mambas you need to watch. I am actually surprised that the green mamba stayed around, they usually take off at the site of man.

bcd01 wrote in post #11922235
Green Mambas are generally not aggressive; its the black mambas you need to watch. I am actually surprised that the green mamba stayed around, they usually take off at the site of man.

do you have personal experience with mambas or just relating what you've read somewhere?

Made me immed. think of Kill Bill..lol. Nice shot.
Karen

Beautiful shot, were you on a photo safari?
What part of Africa?
Looking to book a trip there. Any info as far as best time of year to go or where?
Thanks

bigcountry wrote in post #11922594
do you have personal experience with mambas or just relating what you've read somewhere?

green mambas aren't aggressive. But the Black Mamba is and very poisonous.

was it in a tank?

or is SA where they grow fake vines?

actually there is no such thing as a poisonous snake, but i was asking for the OP's personal interaction with this snake, his opinion. Since all snakes are not created equally, this one may have been aggressive or it may have been placid.

Every snake is different, even different individuals of the same genus, species and sub-species.

I've dealt with agkistrodon contortrix mokasen that were very aggressive and i've dealt with crotalus viridis viridis that were extremely docile.

Again, I am not looking for comments from the peanut gallery who have read books or the internet about this subject, just the OP's observations.

Huskers69 wrote in post #11924652
green mambas aren't aggressive. But the Black Mamba is and very poisonous.