Egg-Eating Snakes

The few teeth it has are solid and harmless.
No fangs.
Wide variation in pattern and colour; ranging from browns and greens to solid dark grey.
V-shaped dark mark on neck; the top of which points to the snout.
Fairly slender snake with small head that is rounded at the snout.
Belly usually cream in brown coloured snakes and white in grey ones.
Size ranges from 1.5' to 5' in length.
Often confused with the Night Adder (Causus rhombeatus).

Generally live in forests or anywhere that is also the habitat of large numbers of nesting birds.
Extremely strong climbers.
Keenly developed sense of smell – they will not eat rotten eggs or ones that are too far developed for their taste.
Swallows eggs whole but crushes and regurgitates the shell.
Extremely nervous species and non-confrontational.