Dendroaspis viridis

My 0.1 Dendroaspis viridis sorry for the crappy picture

Dendroaspis viridis D_viri10

Stunning snake and nothing wrong with the picture the coolest thing is that you often see on the head if it is a male or female :-)

thanks for sharing

nice man...
how is the karater of this animals you here different things abouth viridis..
gr jorg

Very nice female. Thanx for sharing.

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Very nice d. viridis Agust.
Richard would you be so kind as to please explain how to sex d viridis by looking at their heads. If anybody has any female d viridis that would like to exchange for males or sell could they please PM me, i will be at Hamm next week.
Thanks Dougie

Richard Mastenbroek wrote:: Stunning snake and nothing wrong with the picture the coolest thing is that you often see on the head if it is a male or female :-)

thanks for sharing

Great snake!

Thanks for all the kind replies Very Happy

And i would also be interested in knowing how you can see the diffrences in sex on their heads?
As i only own a female and would like to get ahold of a male Cool

the snouth of a male viridis is larger than that from a female..
gr jorg

Jorg is rigth most mamba male have puffed heads I always compare them to pitbull females have a more narrow head. Even in small mambas you can see quit good imo

cheers

RIchard

Hi Agust
What a stunning snake. I cant explain how much I enjoy this species! I wish you the greatest success with these magnificent creatures!

Hi Jorg
“how is the karater of this animals you here different things about viridis.”
In my limited experience with D. viridis I have found that they are more excitable than D. angusticeps but still far easier to work with than D. polylepis. The D. viridis spread a narrow hood and will strike out if they feel threatened they sometimes also gape their mouths and slowly flick their tongues like their black cousins. In my experience if I had to rate the genus according to difficulty using temperament as my rating factor my list would go something like this.
D angusticeps - easiest
D viridis
D jamesoni kiamosae (never worked with jamesoni jamesoni so not sure about these)
D polylepis – Most difficult
Hope that helps.

My experiences with D.Viridis is that they are calm most of the time but when they get agitated they are hellfire Laughing

But that may have something to do with the size of my female since she,s around 220-230 cm long and still growing quite well Smile

I have had some experience with D. angusticeps but not with very large individuals, and they are almost always very nervous and runny althought that too might have to do with their size.

thanks for the info guys..
i have a angusticeps female she is 180 cm and is verry calm when i work with here..
you here of viridis that they are realy a pain in the A** and that it is a whole different snake than a angusticeps.
gr jorg

Nice snake Agust! We spoke some at the show in Stockholm, I was the guy with Psuedechis.

Thank you for sharing. D.viridis are for sure one of my favourites!

I have a picture of the difference you can see in the head, but unfortunately it doesn't belong to me and I cannot remember whose it is.. I'll find out and ask permission, if all goes well I'll post that photo..

Did You mean that one of D. polylepis?

http://www.venomland.net/t549-mamba-crossing

Another image, this one by my friend Dendroaspis viridis D_viri10

I so wish I could put this pic up, but it just doesn't belong to me... Sorry guys.. I'm just being honest.. But I am still looking up the owner.. I even have it as my desktop background.. Sad