Taxonomy
Africa
2 entries
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Book VII
Mamba — unclaimed
The fastest snake on earth, and no car will touch it
It is not black. It is grey-brown, and the name refers to the inside of its mouth, which it shows you first.
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Book VII
Boomslang — unclaimed
Afrikaans for “tree snake”. Killed the herpetologist who insisted it could not.
For decades the boomslang was considered harmless because its fangs sit at the back of the mouth. In 1957 that assumption killed one of the most…