This is the largest snake at RNP and can sometimes be found sun bathing in a tree, but more frequently coiled up quietly on the forest floor. It is nocturnal.
Total length: 2.5m.
Eats small lemurs (Hapalemur griseus, other lemurs are wary in its presence) and other mammals.
(in Ranomafana)
(in Lokobe, Nosy Be)
in Perinet
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Photograph in Perinet copyright © 1992, in Lokobe copyright © 1993, in Ranomafana copyright © 1999 by George Williams.
Glaw & Vences, 1994, A Fieldguide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar
IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre, viewed in July 2000, "Threatened Animals of the World", IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals