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Not your average snakes...

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helifreak

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I have always had a fascination with snakes... growing up in souther-eastern North Carolina they are just a part of summer life...

Yesterday, I welcomed my first pet snake - a beautiful amelanistic corn...

I while ago, I visited the Cape Fear Serpentarium where my interest in snakes peaked - I was able to repress this for a couple years, until I broke down yesterday and acquired my first pet snake.

Here are some photos I took during the visit - it's a rare day where you get to stare down a Black Mamba... and the beauty of the Green Mamba has to be seen to be believed...
 

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Identification:

#1 : Green Mamba
#2: (Unknown - I forget what this one is)
#3: Black Mamba
#4: Puff Adder (not the south-east hognose variety - but the highly venomous variety)
#5: Black Mamba - that is the smile of a narcissistic snake if I have ever seen one...
 
#2 looks like a Carpet Python...

I also think your "Puff Adder" is a Fer de'Lance. I could be mistaken, but I do not believe that the Puff Adder is a pit viper, and this one clearly has heat pits. I'm not an African viper specialist, no am I a South American viper specialist, but this one definitely gives me a Fer de'Lance feeling...
 
My first thought on the python was Boelens.

Nice mambas! I like both, green and black. I love it when a black does its threat display. Looks like an East African green??
 
Snakewhisperer said:
Agreed with Tyflier, markings of a Lance head.
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Yes - this is jogging my memory some more... If I remember correctly, #4 was indeed a South American snake species - I think the serpentarium did have a puff adder as well - but I am not sure if I got a good photo of it.

I was recently talking with a friend who lives in Wilmington (where the serpentarium is) and she frequents the feedings - which occur on the weekends and are open to a select number of visitors. Hopefully I can get down there for a feeding soon!
 
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