Close up of the head of a Smooth Slug-eating Snake, Pareas laevis

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" At night this species crawls over the forest floor searching out slugs that form the main part of its diet When scared it coils into a spiral, or flat cone, with its head hidden in the centre of the coil For defence it may strike like a viper, although it is not poisonous or dangerous "

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Size: 5200px × 3393px
Location: Borneo, Malaysia, Southeast Asia
Photo credit: © Alex Haas / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: borneo, chordates, colubrid, colubridae, laevis, nocturnal, ophidians, pareas, predator, rainforests, reptile, reptiles, scales, serpentes, serpents, slug, slug-eating, smooth, snake, snakes, squamata, tropical, vertebrata, vertebrate, vertebrates, wildlife