News Item: : Swallowed whole!
(Category: Conservation & Environment)
Posted by RAG
Thursday 15 July 2010
In the Kgalagadi Transfrontier National Park, photographer Piet Heymans came across an extraordinary sequence of a cobra devouring a puff adder. The photo is taken near Langklaas in the park along a stretch of road where a puddle had formed from rains the night before. “It was amazing to see how the cobra puts its teeth forward each time, slowly forcing the puff adder down its throat. The tail of the puff adder disappeared in the cobra’s mouth 52 minutes later. The cobra sailed away as if it had swallowed nothing.”
This snake is one of the entries for the Captured Experiences competition. Get your entries for the next round in by 9 August. Images must be taken in one of the following parks: Augrabies Falls, Mokala, Tankwa Karoo, Namaqua, Kgalagadi and Ais-Ais/Richtersveld.
For more information on this, bat houses for Berg-en-Dal and the Taita falcon visit www.wildcard.co.za.
This news item is from Bedfordview Residents Action Group
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(Category: Conservation & Environment)
Posted by RAG
Thursday 15 July 2010
In the Kgalagadi Transfrontier National Park, photographer Piet Heymans came across an extraordinary sequence of a cobra devouring a puff adder. The photo is taken near Langklaas in the park along a stretch of road where a puddle had formed from rains the night before. “It was amazing to see how the cobra puts its teeth forward each time, slowly forcing the puff adder down its throat. The tail of the puff adder disappeared in the cobra’s mouth 52 minutes later. The cobra sailed away as if it had swallowed nothing.”
This snake is one of the entries for the Captured Experiences competition. Get your entries for the next round in by 9 August. Images must be taken in one of the following parks: Augrabies Falls, Mokala, Tankwa Karoo, Namaqua, Kgalagadi and Ais-Ais/Richtersveld.
For more information on this, bat houses for Berg-en-Dal and the Taita falcon visit www.wildcard.co.za.
This news item is from Bedfordview Residents Action Group
( http://www.bedfordviewrag.co.za/news.php?extend.141 )