OKOATA:
I was coming back from a walk with my dog this morning so I passed a bushy path that have residential homes. Saw this gentle slime ball underneath one of the leaves waiting for chicks to come close. Quickly cut of a mango branch and hit it a couple of times before it died. I don't know but is this a BOA?

That's a puff adder. . .

rinzaugustine:
Rattle snake or viper.. killed one of my friends 20 years ago because Nigeria doesn’t have ordinary anti venoms in hospitals unlike civilized countries

Very unfortunate

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U mean 2 billion snakes still dey naija?

Na u go add naija ....when I never talk finish ....

Night adder

It's a Gaboon viper. Very deadly. In Igbo, it is called "echi eteka" (tomorrow is too far), which implies that the venom kills almost instantly.

That's a night adder pls, though venomous, their bites are rarely fatal.

OKOATA:
I was coming back from a walk with my dog this morning so I passed a bushy path that have residential homes. Saw this gentle slime ball underneath one of the leaves waiting for chicks to come close. Quickly cut of a mango branch and hit it a couple of times before it died. I don't know but is this a BOA?

Rhombic night adder.....

Segxydube:



Hmmm... How much una buy the venom?

we spent 50k then, I think the snake is nonvenom, I have killed that snake several times.

That looks like a saw scaled viper (male)
You can tell by how dark the colour is the males usually have a darker skin tone than the females and a very distinct V shape on the head.
If you get close to it, it rubs the scales on the skin against each other to make the sound of a saw cutting wood and it has a very loud hiss.
If after those two warnings you don’t turn around they will strike repeatedly up to 12 times and each time they inject a certain milligram of hemotoxic venom which is enough to kill 20 full grown horses.

— Do you know that Mambas, Cobras and Vipers are the most lethal serpents and all 3 can be found in no other continent but in Africa

It's Puff adder.... It's called "echi eteka" in my language. Once it bites, except for the application of a strong anti-venomous treatment, the victim might die within few hours.

YOUNGELDER1:
From the shape of the head it looks non venomous.

Look at the V shape on the head that is a venomous serpent.
It once crawled into our compound from under the gate and one our puppies heard it hissing went close to smell it and got bitten on the nose…. We watched it die within 30 minutes it was vomiting black blood.

My dad killed the snake and killed the dead body also.

kingbee90:
Why kill that poor snake?
Why are you this angry? See as you smash am.
Na the snake cause hardship? Na the snake remove subsidy? Na the snake change our national anthem back to the one wey an old British colonial racist been compose in 1977?

You better channel your energy to the right person oh

He wanted the snake to vomit the money it swallowed 😄 🤣 😂

I know this specie, it's a "dead snake". The best kind of snake there is.

OKOATA:
I was coming back from a walk with my dog this morning so I passed a bushy path that have residential homes. Saw this gentle slime ball underneath one of the leaves waiting for chicks to come close. Quickly cut of a mango branch and hit it a couple of times before it died. I don't know but is this a BOA?

When I used google to search for the image, I got that result. You might wanna do same since you have a clearer picture.

OKOATA:
I was coming back from a walk with my dog this morning so I passed a bushy path that have residential homes. Saw this gentle slime ball underneath one of the leaves waiting for chicks to come close. Quickly cut of a mango branch and hit it a couple of times before it died. I don't know but is this a BOA?

That is a small puff adder. One bite and you find yourself in the mortuary.

Zico5:
Viper or paramore. If it bite u hen, na heaven straight

Heaven or Hell?

DoctorAyukebot:
That right there looks like Echis ocellatus, the West African Carpet viper. Last year I did some research work with its venom. Hoping to find some success for its use in high blood pressure. It's relative the Brazilian viper Bothrops jararaca from where the nonapeptide Teprotide was isolated in the eighties led to the first ACEI drug for high blood pressure

Did you ? Well done and thank you to your service to humanity .

Boa? You say Luthuli?? A snake that two persons has seen cannot be a boa hahaha

This is a Snouted Night Adder. (Look at the black V shape stripe on its head) Although venomous but its venom is not life threatening to humans.

OKOATA:
I was coming back from a walk with my dog this morning so I passed a bushy path that have residential homes. Saw this gentle slime ball underneath one of the leaves waiting for chicks to come close. Quickly cut of a mango branch and hit it a couple of times before it died. I don't know but is this a BOA?

That looks to me like a type of adder/viper. That's one deadly snake you got there.

National Anthem Snake

Looks like a rhombic egg eater.

OKOATA:
I was coming back from a walk with my dog this morning so I passed a bushy path that have residential homes. Saw this gentle slime ball underneath one of the leaves waiting for chicks to come close. Quickly cut of a mango branch and hit it a couple of times before it died. I don't know but is this a BOA?

the snake looks like viper after zooming the picture closely

ViceGovernor:

Look at the V shape on the head that is a venomous serpent.
It once crawled into our compound from under the gate and one our puppies heard it hissing went close to smell it and got bitten on the nose…. We watched it die within 30 minutes it was vomiting black blood.

My dad killed the snake and killed the dead body also.

Okay noted

kingbee90:
Why kill that poor snake?
Why are you this angry? See as you smash am.
Na the snake cause hardship? Na the snake remove subsidy? Na the snake change our national anthem back to the one wey an old British colonial racist been compose in 1977?

You better channel your energy to the right person oh

oga , a snake once swallowed our money in this Nigeria or have you forgotten?

The snake is a species of night adder,,any of of seven species of vipers of the genus Causus.
They are all endemic to Africa and the only African vipers that lay eggs.
Others give birth to their hatchlings alive.
They possess cytotoxic venom which destroys cells and tissues.
Most vipers possess highly potent haemotoxic venom.
A few like the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake are extremely venomous with neurotoxic venom.

Adder. Very poisoneous. Our people call it echi eteka

Snake Xenzia from Nokia Torch

fuellessgen:


That looks like an Anaconda.

Very easy to mention. I doubt you can find Anaconda in Nigeria. I doubt further you know what Anaconda is.

davidque:


No that's not a Gaboon viper

No it is an African carpet viper.

OKOATA:
I was coming back from a walk with my dog this morning so I passed a bushy path that have residential homes. Saw this gentle slime ball underneath one of the leaves waiting for chicks to come close. Quickly cut of a mango branch and hit it a couple of times before it died. I don't know but is this a BOA?

This is a night adder. Moderately Venomous