Talk:Boomslang

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Just one thing to explain: I removed "many" from the sentence: "[...] deeply grooved fangs that are (like in many other venomous colubrids) located in the rear of the jaw." All the venomous colubrids have fangs in the rear of the jaw. AFAIK there are no proteroglypha of solenoglypha among colubrids. "Many" suggests that there can be venomous colubrids with other type of fangs. Of course there are many (most in fact) non-venomous colubrids. Jasra 23:21, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Some species, like Ahaetulla sp. are not exactly rear-fanged, others have no directed method and are aglyphous... but with or without the word "many", it conveys the point. :) -Dawson 23:56, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

OK. I forgot aglypha venomous snakes. Rhabophis tigrinum (syn. Natrix tigrina) can be an example (one fatal invenomation recorded). Jasra 00:12, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Behaviour & Diet

"Their diet includes chameleons, arboreal lizards, frogs, and occasionally small mammals, birds and eggs from nesting birds which they swallow whole, without prior strangling."

This sentence doesn't sound right - "prior strangling" isn't the right term as they don't strangle, but rather crush or asphyxiate, and it doesn't apply to eggs anyway, where it would be simply be crushing, but I'm stumped as to how it ought to be phrased...

"without employing constriction" should be adequate to make it sound more encyclopedic and explain the term via wikilink. -Dawson 15:35, 2 May 2006 (UTC)