Puff adders are probably responsible for more dangerous bites than any other highly venomous snake in Zimbabwe. They are heavy bodied and relatively slow-moving snakes that have a habit of lying on footpaths. They do this to ambush their prey, which is mainly rodents and who also use footpaths. When they hear someone coming, the […]
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Olive Whip (grass) Snake (Psammophis phillpsii) On almost every occasion that I have been called out to collect a positively! Identified ‘black mamba’, from someone’s house or garden, it has turned out to be an Olive Whip or Grass snake! They are fairly large, robust snakes, sometimes getting up to almost 1,8m in length. They […]
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There is little chance of you coming across a black mamba near the water’s edge when you are out fishing, because firstly, they don’t generally hunt their prey near water, and secondly, being very shy and antisocial, they would have moved on as soon as they heard you coming! However, you may encounter them on […]
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Gaboon Viper Bitis gabonica Gaboon vipers have a restricted range and are essentially forest dwellers. They are very spectacular being the heaviest, if not the longest venomous snake in Africa and one of the largest venomous snakes in the world. In Zimbabwe, they are found only along the eastern border, mainly in the river valleys […]
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The Egyptian or ‘snouted’ cobra is common throughout Zimbabwe, except for the NW of the country where it is substituted by the subspecies Anchieta’s cobra (Naja anchietae) . They live mainly in anthills on vleis (swamps) and in Harare, forage in adjoining properties for rats and toads. However, they often crop up on plots quite […]
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