Snakes Alive - 01:35 pm
30 Dec 2009
The December rains have returned to their normal cycle and it was a grey cloudy rainy day in Moremi. The pride are still west of 3rd Bridge but have not been seen.
We took this rainy day to do some maintenance around camp. But there is no need to have to leave the camp in order to experience the wildlife.
Yesterday it was the Wild Dogs near camp and today it was an old resident that showed its face.
It was a Boomslang (Dispholidus typus typus), who was shown to us by the resident birds. Their intense chittering alerted us to the snakes presence and after staring into the bush we spotted the snake. It seemed distracted and did not actively hunt but instead hung its head off a branch and regurgitated a few balls of undigested animal parts. Snakes cannot digest the fur and bones of their prey and need to remove these remnants from the digestive system.
Once the snake was done, it moved deeper into the Setshi (Acacia hebeclada) and we had a couple of brief views before it moved off.
Thanks to Connall Oosterbroek for the pictures.
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