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A face-shield is a must protection when dealing with the Black-necked spitting cobra (Naja nigricollis). This species is typical to the savannah but has been found in the rain forest as well. Usamabara Mountains, Tanzania.


Meet a real Indiana Jones - a scientist adventurer who flies, dives, and drives like a demon to gather blood from the world's deadliest snakes. In Tanzania's most pristine environments, Yale researcher Zoltan Takacs survives a dangerous bush landing and the lethal spray of spitting cobras to continue his research into a tantalizing question - why are cobras resistant to their own venom? He's got just two weeks to penetrate hard-to-reach environments and come back with blood samples from some of the world's deadliest snakes. © N.G.S.

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Boomslang (Dispholidus typus) in the Mkomazi savannah, Tanzania.

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Boomslang (Dispholidus typus) fang is located in the rear part of the mouth.

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A freshly cought Usambara eyelash bush viper (Atheris ceratophorus) in the Usamabara Mountains, Tanzania.

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Black-necked spitting cobra (Naja nigricollis) ejects jets of venom toward an intruder (me). The venom spray is originating from the two fangs. Usamabara Mountains, Tanzania.



Zoltan is about to catch an Egyptian cobra (Naja haje), Tanzania.



DNA can easily be extracted from a wide variety of tissues (like blood, shed skin, tail tip) and this means that animals in the wild that are sampled can be released after a few minutes causing only a minor or no discomfort at all to them. After sampling, the tissue is placed in a special liquid to preserve the molecules (there is no freezer in the rain forest) and travels back to the laboratory where the DNA is extracted and analyzed.

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I have worked with Black-necked spitting cobra (Naja nigricollis) myself and found these animals to be amazing.





I was not aware these animals are found in Tanzania.

More nice Pics! Nice to see them in their natural enviroment like that too!
I hope you'll post lots more friend, sounds like you've had some intresting experiences and have alot to share!
Glad your enjoying the site mate!
I would love to visit many places mentioned myself someday,
meanwhile I enjoy the worlds Reptile life via this site!

No worries mate. Does this site have a reminder as I have not had any if someone answers the post?

Yes, when you make a new topic 'automatic notification of replys ' by email is already ticked.
Also you can click 'my controls' at the top of the page in the links bar, on the new page, scroll down the left pane and click on 'email settings'

the following page has an option at the bottom..

'Enable 'Email Notification' by default?'
Enabling this option will automatically subscribe you to any topic you start or reply to.

Great thanks all done. I recon that should be automatic till the member deactivates it.

I saw that there is no PM function. Don’t want to be critic but in my personal opinion this is a nice option so things like this are not discussed on open forum.
Its if I want to give you or some else my email address for some reason but dont what the world to see it so it does not appear on some spam mail listing.

There IS a PM function mate, just click this button ->
at the bottom of a persons post or click on their username which takes you to their profile where there is a PM link.

Youll get the hang of it!

No worries. Its as if I was looking but did not see.