{"id":9900,"date":"2020-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/red-lipped-snake\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T10:22:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T08:22:45","slug":"red-lipped-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/kruger-national-park-news\/kruger-park-reptile-guide\/red-lipped-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Lipped Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Name<\/h2>\n<p>Red Lipped Snake [Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia]\n<h2>Appearance<\/h2>\n<p>The Red Lipped Snake, known as the \u201cRooi Lippie\u201d, is a small snake that has an obvious and broad head and a short tail. They have about 19 rows of scales on their mid section that are dull in colour while the rest of the body is a grey-brown colour. The underside of the Red Lipped Snake is a pale white colour. The snake gets its name from the bright orange-red markings on either side of its face, just above the mouth.<\/p>\n<h2>Diet<\/h2>\n<p>The Red Lipped Snake is a nocturnal hunter that mainly feeds on amphibians and other small reptiles.<\/p>\n<h2>Distribution<\/h2>\n<p>The Red Lipped Snake can be encountered commonly in the eastern half of South Africa, from South Western Cape to Zimbabwe and to the Tropical regions of Africa.<\/p>\n<h2>Breeding<\/h2>\n<p>The Female Red Lipped Snake lays 6 -19 eggs in and among leaves early in the summer and after 61 \u2013 64 days the young will hatch.<\/p>\n<h2>Toxin<\/h2>\n<p>The Red Lipped Snake is non toxic and no negative symptoms have been found in bite wounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name Red Lipped Snake [Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia] Appearance The Red Lipped Snake, known as the \u201cRooi Lippie\u201d, is a small snake that has an obvious and broad head and a short tail. They have about 19 rows of scales on their mid section that are dull in colour while the rest of the body is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9900","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\/9900","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=9900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}