{"id":9894,"date":"2020-10-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/olive-grass-snake\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T08:22:47","slug":"olive-grass-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/kruger-national-park-news\/kruger-park-reptile-guide\/olive-grass-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"Olive Grass Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Name<\/h2>\n<p>Olive Grass Snake [Psammophis mossambicus]\n<h2>Appearance<\/h2>\n<p>The Olive Grass Snake is a rather large snake with a long tail and a non-flattened snout. Its body colour is primarily olive-brown in colour that gets paler towards the tail. In some cases, the snake will have black lines or black flecks scattered across its forebody. It has a white-yellow coloured underside that stretches the length of its body.<\/p>\n<h2>Diet<\/h2>\n<p>The Olive Grass Snake has a diet that consists mainly of reptiles and amphibians and includes frogs, lizards, other snakes and even you Black Mambas.<\/p>\n<h2>Distribution<\/h2>\n<p>The Olive Grass Snake can be found in some Parts of Northern KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and other countries in Southern Africa. As the name suggests, the Olive Grass Snake prefers grassy areas where they can stay hidden among the grass.<\/p>\n<h2>Breeding<\/h2>\n<p>The Female Olive Grass Snake lays her eggs in midsummer among dead leaves and can lay anywhere from 10 \u2013 30 eggs at a time. The baby Olive Grass Snakes hatch from their eggs after 65 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name Olive Grass Snake [Psammophis mossambicus] Appearance The Olive Grass Snake is a rather large snake with a long tail and a non-flattened snout. Its body colour is primarily olive-brown in colour that gets paler towards the tail. In some cases, the snake will have black lines or black flecks scattered across its forebody. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kruger-park-reptile-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}