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Tina and Sam stopped to avoid a chameleon crossing a dirt road. A female boomslang raced out from the bush, bit the chameleon, and retreated back into the roadside vegetation to wait for her victim to die. When it collapsed she emerged again, seized the chameleon behind the head, and carried it off into the bush. The girls were able to film the snake picking up and carrying off the chameleon.
The first picture shows the chameleon, still appearing surprised, just after having been bitten. In the second photo the chameleon is struggling, and in the third it has collapsed and died. In the two latter photos you can see the en echelon tracks of the snake rushing out to attack the chameleon, and the trace of her more leisured retreat into the bush to wait. |
