My Venomous Snakes

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Originally Posted by Najakeeper

The adults are smaller than 2ft long, but Tom is right about the annulata, I have seen even larger specimens.

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Okay that's what I was confused about. He said he had never dealt with N. Christyi which are the ones you have correct? I know the genus changed but what confused me is that the only two Boulengerina were the annulata and Christyi(which are the ones you have?) so I figured the size may of been an assumption by him. I know the information on wiki about them is a bit off.

There are three species mate:

N.annulata
N.christyi
N.sp "Congo"

The confusion is due to both christyi and undescribed species coming from Congo.

What I have is the undescribed species, smallest of all three.

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Originally Posted by Najakeeper

There are three species mate:

N.annulata
N.christyi
N.sp "Congo"

The confusion is due to both christyi and undescribed species coming from Congo.

What I have is the undescribed species, smallest of all three.

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That makes even more sense. I wish they were more studied and available.

Common Death Adder eating a fuzzy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u44BmxRqz8

Acanthophis antarcticus (Common Death Adder) from Sydney:


http://imageshack.com/a/img18/1995/jdsr.jpg
http://imageshack.com/a/img855/2636/qcdc.jpg
http://imageshack.com/a/img827/2199/fzi9.jpg


Acanthophis hawkei happy Death Adder dance:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN6sl7vbK6c


Acanthophis sp. Dajarra slowmo strike:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN7Ll9gJ6uc

Here is my beautiful Crotalus d. unicolor:


Head:
http://imageshack.com/a/img546/5625/vp5t.jpg


Scale detail:


http://imageshack.com/a/img577/2535/bqnn.jpg


Rattle:
http://imageshack.com/a/img268/6615/8kje.jpg

I love cobras! Do water cobras have a 'hood' that fans out like the typical cobra everyone thinks of?

And here is a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxaTc0tLigA

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Originally Posted by Lubana

I love cobras! Do water cobras have a 'hood' that fans out like the typical cobra everyone thinks of?

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Water cobras have a very narrow hood and they hardly ever display it, very though to catch on camera.

Here are a couple of the cobras, which I had when I was in the States hooding:

http://imageshack.com/a/img69/8517/38pi.jpg

http://imageshack.com/a/img241/7514/48wq.jpg

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Originally Posted by Najakeeper

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Great stuff! I have no intention of ever getting into venomous snakes, but they are fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

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