This African Rock python is about 3m in length. My son was on his way out last Friday at around 7pm when he came across this magnificent creature. It reared up on about 1meter of it's tail end and flung itself back into the bush. Quite an amazing story as they are rarely seen.
Omg! this is really scary.
I know they're huge! But not often seen, so my son was really lucky. It's not a great photo, but he wasn't quite prepared! :)
WOW, Nature is surely amazing! We can't find snakes in cars here in Portugal :P
If I found this snake in the car I would die of a heart attack! It was crossing the road and looked like a log at first :)
Ahahah don't say that! I've seen some snakes in the streets and they don't do anything. But that happens here. In Africa it's totally different.
I've got some questions, can you answer me? :)
This snake was not poisonous, was it?
In what parts of Africa (continent), where can venomous snakes be found? Being Portuguese, I have little knowledge of this, and I would like to know.
The African rock python is non venomous and uses constriction to kill its prey.
In South Africa we have quite a few venomous snakes, the most dangerous being Adders/vipers (puff adder, Gaboon viper, night adder and berg adder); Mambas (black mamba, green mamba); Cobras (Cape cobra, Mozambique spitting cobra, snouted cobra, forest cobra); Rinkhals, boomslang and twig/vine snake.
I'm not sure about other parts of Africa.
There's lots of info on the internet, if you're keen to know more. I see that Portugal really has only one snake dangerous to humans, called the Lataste's viper.
I was completely unaware that Portugal had a poisonous snake. Usually, here we are very careful with these animals. There is no contact of the population with any kind of venomous animals. We are concentrating only on trying to prevent the extinction of certain species that are important to the Peninsula-Inbérica.