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Tiny baby Barnes' Cat Snake ready for a fight
A lot of the cat snakes will coil the front part of their bodies like this. I've usually seen this as a defensive posture, though in this case the little (between 4 and 5 inches long) snake was already in this position when I first saw it. Maybe it saw me before I saw it though.
''Boiga barnesii'' is a species of cat snake found in Sri Lanka known as the Barnes' Cat Snake in English and ''panduru mapila-පදුරු මාපිලා'' in Sinhala. It is a member of the snake family Colubridae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka and is distributed in the lowlands and midlands up to ~600m above sea level, with known localities include Matale, Kandy, Gannoruwa, Gampola, Ambagamuwa, Balangoda, Labugama and Sinharaja Rain Forest. Barnes' cat snake is mainly a forest-dwelling species.. more
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