Photogaphed in our garden yesterday; first thought it was spotted bush snake, but ?? - could it be a boomslang?
Locality: near Greytown KZN
What snake is it?
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Re: What snake is it?
looks like a Boomslang to me with those big eyes - what a beautiful snake!
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Re: What snake is it?
if it was found in your garden I think it is a "TUINslang" 
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Re: What snake is it?
Not so sure about the beautiful part? I have never been known to run from beautykrazy_kameleon wrote:looks like a Boomslang to me with those big eyes - what a beautiful snake!
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Re: What snake is it?
I am with you Jan, the photographer must have zoomed in quite a bit or have big b@lls to take such close-ups
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Re: What snake is it?
Looks like an adult male boomslang ... the females have a duller green upper colour while the males have that beautiful turquoise sheen along the side where it changes between the yellow underbelly and the dark green back. (At first glance it looked a bit like a green mamba because of the close-up perspective, but the colour is also too dark, the head shape and scale pattern on the head is wrong for a mamba.) It's a boomslang. 
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Re: What snake is it?
I'm out (don't know enough). Will learn from this though- thanks.
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Re: What snake is it?
This is also one of the Natal Green family . . . Philothamnus sp.
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Re: What snake is it?
Yikes, excuse me for a few minutes, I need to go and clean up. 
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