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what snake is this?
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what snake is this?

taken in Rome
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MlZad
A beautiful (and perfectly harmless) Western Whip Snake (Hierophis viridiflavus).
http://www.herp.it/indexjs.htm?SpeciesPages/ColubVirid.htm
How big was it?
 
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Thank you!

about 1.5m long.
I was walking along the road taking photos of birds, it suddenly dropped nearly on me from the tree. That was scary...
 
MlZad
Don't worry. From the look on its face and its behaviur you described, it was more scared of you than you were of it.
 

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