This is another in the ever-growing set of candidates for "Worst photo on wildherps.com". Other proud entries in the competition include the awful "Boomslang Speeding Up Tree in Dark Forest", the dreadful "Distant Nile Monitor Taken with 400mm Lens on Slow Slide Film While Standing in an Idling Jeep", and the really just pathetic "Poorly-flashed Fragment of Collared Whipsnake Hiding in Log".

My excuse this time was that this dangerously venomous snake was partly concealed at night and ready to slither off at the slightest provocation, and our guides made sure I didn't get too close. And it was quickly slightly provoked, and slithered off.