Generaly speaking all snakes have very poor sight. General snake hunting tatics consist of finding prey in a burrow or underneath somthing, franticly fallowing your nose to the prey and then biteing anything you see even twitch, even yourself at times lol!

I firmly belive your typical elapids and colubrids rely more on their nose then eyes. They smell food and anything that twitches gets attacked. Poor eyesight is even more apprent in their threat display (Naja). They are always just looking in your direction nd down, never realy at you. The reason it was reared at the wall was probaly because of your shadow.

Of cource I am gerneralizeing the families and exceptions to rule exsist. The Naja pallida I have worked with were very visualy aware. Same with Forest cobras. The snouted cobras and Asian cobras were not however.

There are also Deendroaspis, O.hannah and Oxyuranus, all with very acute vision.

Naja kaouthia however seems to have very poor eyesight in general. Being an albino definately helps with that though almost every kaothia I have ever worked with as reacted the same.

Very beautiful snake btw!

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