A harmless Australian snake which lives close to water, where it feeds exclusively on frogs and the cane toad, whose venom it is immune to.
Amphiesma mairii, family Colubridae
Example sentencesExamples
- We recommend that the red-necked keelback be considered a dangerous animal and the public be discouraged from keeping it as a pet.
- A few Southeast Asian keelbacks species, such as the red-necked keelback were documented to have caused significant envenomations.
- The narrow bands of speckled scales which adorn the body and tail are also a typical keelback pattern.
- The keelbacks living in fields are gentle little snakes.
- Female keelbacks return to the place where they hatched from an egg, to lay their own eggs when the time comes.