Spitting Cobra, Naja nigricollis

Family Elapidae. We have not encountered this species, and its presence is recorded based solely on a single specimen from the Ishasha River, probably collected below park boundaries, at lower elevation.

Size: usually about 1.5 m, TL.

Habitat: grassland, savannas, or light woodland; not a forest species.

Range: Senegal east to Kenya and south to Angola, Zambia and Tanzania.