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Here is beauty that I recently acquired which belongs to a large species of bush snakes in Africa and are commonly termed green snakes but unlike our rough and smooth green snakes, these eat frogs, lizards, and rodents and are usually prowling quickly as racers to find food. This particular species is Philothamnus punctatus and has a belly full of tree frogs. Some have a unique blueish color to them. This is also not rear fanged and harmless. Her head looks similiar to a coachwhips and other racers.

Dan

Nice snake ,I've occasionally seen Philothamnus for sale over here....I wonder if they compete with boomslangs in the wild??..they seem to have similar habitat.

Paul

The coloration on that thing is exceptional!

It reminds me, how are your Chironius doing?
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Roy Blodgett
Green Man Herpetoculture
royreptile@yahoo.com

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The babies are fine and thought captive hatched ones would have been a bit calmer but was wrong as they are like are more so jumpy as any snake I've seen and eating me out of house and home of frogs.

Dan

Dan,

You get some pretty awesome animals in! Hit me up sometime, greenpinemuseum@yahoo.com, 719-994-5805.
William Huntsman