The author's 9ft. female Black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) photo: E.Wainberg Distribution South Africa (Pondoland, Natal,Transvaal), Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Angola, Zaire, East Africa. A subspecies, the Northern Black mamba (D. p. antinori) occurs in Northern Kenya, north-eastern Uganda, Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia. This subspecies differs from the nominate race only in a variation in head-shields and a higher average number of scale rows ...

EASTERN GREEN MAMBA SCIENTIFIC NAME:Dendroaspis angusticeps RANGE: Most of East Africa; from Kenya to Zimbabwe. HABITAT: Found usually in tropical or wooded areas. Mambas are also very good tree climbers. DIET: Feeds mostly on birds, rodents, frogs and lizards. STATUS: Not threatened LOCATION IN THE ZOO: Herpetarium Physical Description: Eastern green mambas are the smalles of the mambas. Green mambas reach an average of length of 1.8 meters, with a maximum length of up to 3.7 meter ...

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