The PH grabbed me by the arm and pointed to the long snake making it's way in the field. I must have been every bit of 12 or 13 feet long, with a silvery color on the whole of it's body. I saw NO BLACK anywhere! I got a lesson taught to me that day.....this was an adult BLACK MABA I was told. It seems the only black on them is their entire mouth inside. Just the opposite of a Cotton Mouth but black as the ace of spades. I dare say I stayed in the truck.
yep their name comes from the color of their mouth, their body is usually slate gray or silverish in the right light, especially after a shed....
A serious student of the "Armchair Safari" always looking for Africa/Asia hunting books
