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Figured I'd share these photos with you, I know the elephant the rest I don't know what they are.

Dwarf buffalo, bongo female, forest elephant and my best guess for the last two would be a monkey and a snake!

Fortunately, the snake has a hole in its side. Green Mamba?

Don't think it's a green mamba. The picture has one that was in a cage in a reptile park with me safely on the correct side of the glass. The picture is not that clear but hopefully the color comes out. I believe snakes have a role in the ecology: they on their side and I on mine.

Don't know either but I know it climbs trees because it was after weaver bird nests in a mango tree.

Cannot see for sure, but the eyes seem too small for a boomslang (tree snake). I'll try and find somebody who will know for sure.

The second photo looks like a harnessed bushbuck female and calf.

would bet the snake is a Jamesons mamba.....they range up into the Congo and look like that, scales look right for a mamba.....

Awesome photos.
Thanks for sharing

An absolute possibility. Difficult to say as there is nothing to compare it with for scale but she looks just a bit big for a bushbuck.

Coloration and pattern look right for harnessed bushbuck. ??

I sent the picture of the snake to Norman Crooks. The man has a wealth of knowledge regarding snakes, and he could possibly identify.

My son and I stayed at his home before departing Zim earlier this year. Norman has quite a collection of snakes (alive). He gave my son and I the grand tour..... snakes give me the hee�bie�jee�bies!

be curious to know if my guess is right.....i think it is but there are a whole lot of African colubrids that im not familiar with.....

Maybe this is a better shot of the fawn for identification. Some fellas suggested the snake to be a green mamba. If you looked only at the shape of head and eye, scale design you would swear it to be a green mamba as per some expats that live here also. But the body color is all wrong.Go figure??

see my post, its a jameson's mamba per my guess....just a different species of mamba and some are colored like that....there are 4 mamba species: black(Dendroaspis polylepis), eastern green(Dendroaspis angusticeps), western green(Dendroaspis viridis) and Jameson's Mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps)

Jameson's Mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps)

Thanks rattler, that's very interesting.

gotta head full of useless info, snakes make up a significant portion of the space used for useless info as ive been catching them since i could walk also have kept a number of species....

the wife says if she could find a practical use for the info floating around in my head she will make millions as is im just the walking encyclopedia for the newspaper....

I think you got it right rattler. Thanks for the useful info. Mambas have strange poison also since I was told your organs bleed out, since the poison removes the clotting agent in your blood. Would this be correct. Do people actually bleed from their eyes when bit by a mamba?

wrong snake, your thinking boomslang, and yes thats accurate, also a bit delayed, symptoms dont usually start till hours after teh bite....

mamba is neurotoxic, stops your diaphragm from working, heart quits working....big issue with mambas is there venom takes 10-15mg to kill an adult, however when they bite they tend to inject 100-120mg.....before antivenin was developed it was pretty well unheard off for someone to live more than an hour from a black mamba bite.....even now with antivenin being made its a beotch getting someone to it quick enough to do any good...

the other three mambas are less toxic but only slightly so, not that it matters cause they to tend to inject several times what it actually takes to kill you.....