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Reptiles
Blunthead tree snake
Blunthead tree snake · Imantodes cenchoa
The slender blunthead tree snake hunts at night among leaves and branches and surprises with its broad head and striking eyes.
Fact file
- Size
- Usually 80 to 120 centimetres long, with an extremely slender, ribbon-like body
- Males and females
- Females are usually slightly larger than males
- Sounds
- Very quiet, does not produce any audible vocalisations
- Diet
- Feeds mainly on small lizards, frogs and their eggs
- Offspring
- Females lay up to six elongated eggs, usually at the end of the rainy season
How to identify Blunthead tree snake
The blunthead tree snake is particularly slender and usually reaches a length of 80 to 120 centimetres. With its thin, ribbon-like body and distinctly broader, flat head it almost looks like a moving strip. Its large, protruding eyes with vertical pupils are immediately striking.
The colouration of the blunthead tree snake ranges from light brown to olive and grey-beige, with dark, irregular cross-bands along the back. The underside is lighter, often cream-coloured. This pattern provides perfect camouflage among branches and foliage. A typical identifying feature is the very flattened, conspicuously broad head in relation to the body.
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