Rare Green Mamba Attacks (Actually a Boomslang!)

At the Mezimbite Forest Center near Beira in Mozambique a forest has been replanted by project founder Allan Schwarz. As the trees came back, so did the birds, the frogs, and the Eastern Green Mamba, caught here in clear high-definition footage by Photojournalist and Videographer Jeffrey Barbee. The wild snake symbolizes the recovery of an area that has been decimated by clear-cutting and timber harvesting. See more info at http://jeffreybarbee.blogspot.com/

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• green mamba snake
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• eating a frog
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• cycle of life
• mozambique
• trees

[jefftube4view]

HI Allan and rattling to the end.

YES, this is not a green Mamba. Professor Bill Branch weighed in, he and I worked together on Mozambique's Mount Mabu, and he is well regarded as one as a great snake expert and the author of books about Southern Africa's reptiles. He told me the following:

Dear Jeff

I’m afraid the snake is not a green mamba – two reasons – green mambas only eat warm-blooded prey (birds and mammals) and the eye is too large – it is a male boomslang.

Thanks! Jeff

[jefftube4view]

Hey rattling,

I am suprised, since the person who verified it is a naturalist who lives in the area. However, I will connect with a friend who is southern Africa's most respected reptile expert and get back to you.

Jeff

[patrickbatista0022]

pora faz video em portugues carai

[rattlingtotheend]

@jefftube4view I knew that was no mamba!!! :D also, they all have coffin like heads.

[fadalisdestroyer666]

1:16 OI! rofl

[jjmodglin]

this is the best green mamba vid iv ever seen

[25thesnake]

nice i love snakes

[allanschwarz1]

Jeff, Rattling and Dragonfly,

It is a little tough to stand still with the appropriate reference work looking at the diagrams in an informative fashion while the 1,5 m Prince, formally known as a Mamba eats your flycatchers and frogs. If you can make a definitive identification I would appreciate it, in return I will happily identify your trees....

Allan

[rattlingtotheend]

I don´t know the exact species, but this is NOT a mamba, or an elapid whatsoever... it is a colubrid, perhaps a boomslang, but I am not entirely sure of that

[Dhragonfly]

In the garden of Eden baby..