i was watching austin stevens adventure on sat morning. he was in south africa chasing leopards when he showed a neat looking snake but i missed the name of it. it was bright orange with black diamond like pattern on its back. it appeared arboreal and it did bite him but he wast alarmed so i guess it wast venomous. any ideas on what it might be would be great.
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help identify snake please
spider916
Mar 29, 2010 05:38 PM
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pinstripe15
Apr 14, 2010 07:08 PM
Could be the African coral snake, Aspidelaps lubricus. Unlike New World corals, they are arboreal, and from what I've read have black and orange band-like markings.
DMong
Apr 14, 2010 07:22 PM
Yeah, I can just see him blowing-off a tag from that one as his lips start to tingle and shortness of breath starts kicking in as he tells the TV audience....."ahh!, it was nothing folks, I know what I'm doing!"..HAHAHAA! 
~Doug
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