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Do you think you could outrun this boy. Eeker
The information that came with the photo says that the reptile is about 45 years in age and is about 6 mts in length. The photo was taken near a cemetry close to a sugar cane field, I presume in Natal.
 
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Great Scriptus. Now I'll have the nightmares again ...

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...and it looks hungry!


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Good photoshop job....
 
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Yoiks, it looks like it's passing the guy's car!


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Taken near a cemetary. . . . .
 
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Nothing a shotgun couldn't cure. I'm curious who's been counting that snakes age.... Roll Eyes


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All the people in the cemetary. Big Grin
 
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When in Natal last, my PH told me of how he had been driving in his Landcruiser pickup with a bunch of staff standing in the back of the truck. He drove over (what he thought was) a dead branch in the road, and the darn mamba rose to have its head at the same level as the people in the back of the truck. Fortunately it did not strike...

Apparently the PH had a go at the snake with the pistol of one of his trackers - lived to tell the tale (assuming it was true?). But they do seem to grow them big in Natal!

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Nothing that a load of number 4's wouldn't cure.
 
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As nasty as those things are, it'd almost be a shame to whack it. I didn't know they grew that large.
 
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I saw our tracker Daneesa set a new World High Jump record when we encountered a black mamba in Charisa.

Not knowing why this man leaped straight up and flew through the air with the greatest of ease over the tops of the long grass through which we were walking, I turned to Wayne Bartlett our PH and asked:

"What happened?"

His response was a whispered:

"Black Mamba ... deadly ..."

Never thought to try to find anti-venen before that moment but have thought about it since ...


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Nothing a shotgun couldn't cure. I'm curious who's been counting that snakes age.... Roll Eyes

Shotgun you say, as you lifted the gun you would probably be eyeball to eyeball before the gun was in your shoulder.
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Who's got that 12 gauge full auto shotgun with the drum mag handy?


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I didn't think BM's grew that big ?


Looks a bit like a Python to me !.

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Looks like the Loch Ness Monster is on holiday in South Africa.


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If the pic is real, it's the largest one I ever seen.


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Real or not I dont know, but that is the stuff nightmares are made of! flame The icon shows my preferred weapon for something like this. I will light it up right after I am done changing my shorts.


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FAKE... A mamba is a thin snake and lacks body mass. I saw seven on safaris all thin. Shot a nne footer that attacked us. Thin like a broom handle and never saw one reflecting the sun like in above photo. Body color dull green and black inside of mouth.

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Even a King Cobra struggles to get beyond 6 meters (20 feet) & that is by far the largest venemous snake. They are quite thick too and they eat other snakes!

That could be a 12 - 14 foot snake if it is a genuine picture.

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FAKE... A mamba is a thin snake and lacks body mass. I saw seven on safaris all thin. Shot a nne footer that attacked us. Thin like a broom handle and never saw one reflecting the sun like in above photo. Body color dull green and black inside of mouth.

Mike



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"thin snake and lacks body mass" and " Thin like a broom handle and never saw one reflecting the sun like in above photo"

Re above quotes, that's what I thought as well, hence my comment about some sort of Python.


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I reckon that is bigger than 14 feet.

Compare it to the bits of the fence, the bucket on the stake
and various other bits.

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I hope I am not jinxing myself for saying this. I have not seen a mamba since 1991 in spite of plenty of trips. I hope I never see another, especially that size.

Do you guys really believe that a mamba can move faster than a man can run? I don't.

I think Mike is correct.
 
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Any reason it can't be a Python ?

Is the head the wrong shape ?

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FAKE!

See snake number 8 in the list of longest snakes of the world.

http://www.mostintheworld.com/longest-snake
 
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way too thin to be a python. a python that length would be at least 8-10 inches in diameter, probably more, and weigh at least 100 lbs. my Burmese Python( very similar in size to the African Rock Python) was 19 feet and weighed well over 100 lbs. unless the picture has been altered, that's a mamba and a damned big one. for its apparent length, it is very thin. another indication that it is a mamba is the way it is crawling- head held high and body almost straight- not to mention that even a python that is close to shedding would not have that skin color.


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As nasty as those things are, it'd almost be a shame to whack it. I didn't know they grew that large.


No, it wouldn't 'be a shame', it would 'be the right thing to do'.
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Black mambas I'm acquainted with are not black, they are grey...
 
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way too thin to be a python. a python that length would be at least 8-10 inches in diameter, probably more, and weigh at least 100 lbs. my Burmese Python( very similar in size to the African Rock Python) was 19 feet and weighed well over 100 lbs. unless the picture has been altered, that's a mamba and a damned big one. for its apparent length, it is very thin. another indication that it is a mamba is the way it is crawling- head held high and body almost straight- not to mention that even a python that is close to shedding would not have that skin color.



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Interesting information but quite a few errors. For one the King cobra is stated as 19 meters - more like 19 feet max. The Indian Python is stated as the Burmese python - which is not correct. The Burmese python is the reticulated python & is found in parts of India. But the more common Rock python is the Indian Python.

the claim of 10.7 meters fgor a Reticulated python is ridiculous - that would be 35 feet! The next claim of 8.5 meters or 28 feet for an anaconda is also doubtful.

The other question is the vegetation - does it look like Australia (brown snake?)??

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See snake number 8 in the list of longest snakes of the world.

http://www.mostintheworld.com/longest-snake


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Just to add to the consirpacy theory re length of snakes .........

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...-monster-Borneo.html
 
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I shot one back in 1985 in Botswana while bird hunting.Snake was over 13 ft long. It came through the brush with its head higher than my waist. Old winchester model 12 pump is great snake medicine. Snake was thin as a garden hose


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My guess is either natal King snake if that is indeed SA.
Otherwise its a Cobra in either India or Sri Lanka.
That doesnt quite look like natal to me and the palms next to the road look too much like Sri Lanka or India.
The attitude of the snake and the reflective qualities of the scale make me believe large cobra in asia.
 
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Ive got a pic of a mamba that was killed by a Secrety bird and part of it was eaton.The pic is of me on the back of my landcruser holding the snake with my aem streched outabove my head and its tail was still lying about a metre on the ground.Iam about 6 foot tall add another one and ahalf feet with my arm streached out about 4 feet to the ground fron the landcruser anothe four foot on the ground and what was eaten by the bird.so in total you looking at about 14 or 15 foot thats excluding what was eaten.The pic was taken on old style film and not on digital or i would post it
 
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Reminds me of " I knew you was big, I knew you was black, but where did you get those goo goo eyes ?"
 
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All I can say is BEAUTIFUL snake.
 
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Fake....
and here's an 8 meter mamba


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A couple of years ago, Walter was doing one of his usual acts.

He was hanging out of the truck, with one foot in and one foot out, and his hands holding onto the basket on top of the cab.

We drove over a black mamba lying on the track. We only realized it was a snake at the very last moment, and the driver was not able to stop.

It struck at the tyre, as it was stuck underneeth it, with a very loud crack!

Walter said "OH SHIT! That was close! And I keep telling you guys not to follow black mambas and take video and pictures of them!"


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OK, maybe the photo has been doctored with Photoshop. If so, how do you know that?

Please enlighten us.
 
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