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I was zipping through the forums and came across this pic from the Venomous forum.

This is a pic of a Naja melanoleuca... NOT a Dry'. I find the similarities striking...pun intended.

Doug T

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Looks Quite "Dry"

When I take my Black Or Yellow tails to a show they are mistaken for cobras by most people. Knew a few cobras that acted a lot like Indigos (except more inclined to bite).

>>When I take my Black Or Yellow tails to a show they are mistaken for cobras by most people. Knew a few cobras that acted a lot like Indigos (except more inclined to bite).

Dunno about that - before we first got cobras into our lab, we got a couple of D. melanurus to try our snake handling gear out on. Turns out one of the melanurus was a good deal more terrifying and more difficult to handle than the cobras we eventually got...

Drymarchons certainly do look somewhat cobra-like - that's probably why they are my favourite colubrids In fact, while I was writing the paper describing Drymarchon caudomaculatus, I was also working on the description of a new cobra, Naja mandalayensis - both are somewhat nondescript brown snakes with some dark mottling underneath - I had to be careful not to mix up the photos for the papers, that WOULD have been embarrassing...

Cheers,

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Most Yellowtails I've seen certainly were inclined to bite, don't really know about the Black-lipped Cobra I mentioned, due to the unfortunate consequences of such a thing (for me), I never let it get the chance to bite.

After viewing many exclusively snake eating snakes , you will find that they are ALL very similar looking anatomically.
If somthing works, it works, venomous or not.

yeah i just got my first dry a unicolor and man i thought maybe it was just me but man very cobra lookin to me i love him ,,,,,,thomas

They should come up with a slogan for the ndigo like the others. Mexican King / Black Milk/ Black Pine is "Poor Man's Indigo and the False Water Cobra is "The Diet Coke of Hots". How about Drys are the "caffine free cobra"? Lol....
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