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Here's my handsome male.

I've got a female too, but she wasn't in a good mood, so I left her alone for now. She's a real beauty though, she's got a higher contrast. Awesome snakes.

How's he looking?

Really a great looking specimen. What are they like to handle?

The male is very nice to handle. He just chills in your hands. He does this thing were he raises his head up about 10 inches and just looks around. Pretty much like he's doing in the pictures. The female is a little bit more grumpy. She hisses loudly and puffs up her neck. But she's only struck at me once. Not actually an open mouth strike, just tapped me with her nose. She's just a show off. Awesome snakes.

very nice looking snake nice bright greenish underside

danny

They are truly wonderful snakes. They have the oddest behaviour, such as coiling in the perfect tight spiral with the head on the outside. Always seen in cartoons, rarely seen so perfectly in nature. The uniqueness of their behaviour shouldn't be all that suprising considering that they largely have as little in common with snakes as that other denizen of madagascar, the lemur, does with an ape. All of the Madagascar snakes are in a tight group with each other (except the boas, they are drift-ins from South America) that has been separated from the mainland for 150 million years. They left before the Elapidae (cobras, mambas) even were crawling around that part of Africa. The closet relative of this group are the the oddities such as mole vipers. They are totally unrelated to the other 'colubrids', actually being closer to elapid snakes than to say an American hognosed snakes. Cool

Cheers
BGF