Its been a minute since I've posted here, so I thought I'd make up for lost time with a few images of these western green mambas (
Dendroaspis viridis). These particular specimens are from the Ivory Coast for a few years now.
People sometimes wonder why any keeper would work with a genus as potentially troublesome as that of mambas. This is one of those pictures that can hopefully convey the beauty of these animals.
Mambas are highly alert and very observant animals: you watch them, and they watch you.
Feeding time is a great opportunity to get a glimpse of their oral anatomy.
The species epithet
viridis means 'green,' but these snakes have plenty of yellow (and sometimes blue) in them.
If you look closely enough, then their morphology becomes an art.
I rather enjoyed this snapshot, and hope that you will do the same. Feeding while cohabitating requires close supervision, but these particular specimens are usually quite good about it.
Feel free to correct my mistakes.
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