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Green Mamba
Dendroaspis angusticeps (Green Mamba · ヒガシグリーンマンバ)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Because it also lives in places where people work, such as mango and nut plantations, care is needed around farms not to confuse it with harmless green snakes.
- 💡 The African Snakebite Institute notes that dogs are commonly bitten and killed when trying to attack this snake.
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
📖 1. Overview
The Green Mamba is a bright green venomous snake living in coastal and dense montane forests, also feeling at home in mango and nut plantations.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Because of its bright green body, it is easily confused with harmless green snakes (Philothamnus) or green Boomslangs. Its venom has strong neurotoxic effects that paralyze nerves and can also cause swelling.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It spends most of its life in dense vegetation, hunting arboreal mammals and birds by day and descending to the ground to bask or move between trees. Because it is shy, bites are relatively rare.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2021) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/13265770/13265778
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • catalogueoflife.org — 34M6M
- • iucnredlist.org — 13265778
- • wikidata.org — Q622805
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Eastern Green Mamba 02.jpg
- • africansnakebiteinstitute.com — african-snakes-eastern-green-mamba
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Michael Scroggie, from original photograph by Gary M. Stolz, USFWS (original photograph in public domain). · CC0 1.0 (Related taxon silhouette — Notechis ater niger)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.