What is a green mamba?

Green mamba is a bright, velvety green slender snake with diamond patterned skin, which lives mainly in trees. It has a narrow head, rounded eyes and grows between 5 and 7 feet (1.5 to 2.1 m) long. The reptile is commonly found in forests throughout Africa. The lifetime of the Green Mamba is 15 to 25 years in the wild and can travel at speeds of up to 7 km/h (11.3 km). It also prefers bamboo thickets, as well as mango, tea and coconut plantations. Along with small mammals, reptiles and birds, the snake also enjoys eating bird eggs. This includes a match to each other to the ground, but usually do not bite each other. Green mamba puts eggs rather than giving birth. In the summer, women lay between six and 17 eggs in a nest made between crumbling wood and vegetation on the forest. Hatchlings are born toxic at the end of summer, blue-green colors and measures 13 to 18 inches (33 to 46 cm) long.

Mamba is often wrong with a similar lookThe Green Boornslang snake, which is harmless. The main difference between them is that the abdomen is green and the belly of Boornslang is white or yellow. The eye of Mamba is also smaller than Boornslang's.

While the green mamba comes to the ground to hunt prey, bathing or lay eggs, it is primarily an arboreal species. Green Mamba is a daily, non -aggressive snake that is not known for attacking people. Usually he will try to escape the danger rather than to stay and fight or bite, and usually bites only if he is repeatedly provoked or endangered. When he is ready to bite, the green mamba will ignite and equalize his neck into a narrow hood.

Green Mamba Venom contains neurotoxins. Although the bite dose is usually not essential, because the snake is smaller compared to its relatives, Black Mamba, people attempted by the green mamba should look for immediate medical treatment, because the bite is potentially fatal. Standard care of snake with snake should bedevoted until professional medical assistance is administered, including keeping the victim at rest and peace and maintaining the bitten area below the heart level, if possible.