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Hatching Snakes

Chanced upon these Black House Snakes hatching from the eggs. In late January 2014 in Moglaa of the Savelugu-Nanton district of the Northern Region of Ghana.

Black house snakes are one of two common house snakes in Ghana in the Genus Lamprophis. Members of this Genus are harmless with no fangs. They normally visit homes to feed on mice.



Fig 1

To chance upon a hatching clutch of snake eggs in the wild is not an everyday occurrence. I am happy to have chanced upon this.

Hatching snakes have an egg tooth with which they use to pierce the egg to come out. This tooth is lost in their first moulting (shedding of skin).

Black house snake (Lamprophis fuliginosus)
This was chanced upon when i was doing my IDEAWILD EQUIPMENT sponsored field survey. Thanks to IDEAWILD, i got field equipments to carry out this survey


Fig 2

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