An amazing encounter...
On their way back from lunch Alessia
and Rebecca bumped into a beautiful creature the Seychelles Wolf snake (Lycognathophis seychellensis) in the
middle of the road and saved it from getting crush by cars passing. This beautiful
creature is on our list of animals we can see around the wetland at Anse Intendance (Banyan Tree Resort) but we rarely see it.
They are also endemic in the Seychelles and are listed as
endangered in the IUCN red list, so please refrain from killing them to
extinction. Adults may attain 1 m in total length, with a tail 31 cm long!
The main threats they face is habitat
loss and habitat fragmentation, there have been cases of people often killing
this snake without realizing that they are completely harmless, in fact they
actually move away rapidly when disturbed!
Most people confuses the wolf snake
with the House snake as a result of both snakes sharing the same creole name
"Koulev".
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