Came across this banded file snake on the sand flats before the seagrass lagoon at about 7pm.
banded file snake - 01Feb2011 from SgBeachBum on Vimeo.
It was in the final stages of moulting having shed most of its skin in a pantyhose-like tube. This old skin was banded too and really did feel like hosiery.
The hosiery was cast off with a little help from some human fingers and the snake went about looking for food amongst the many holes in the sand flats which was just beginning to receive the flow from the rising tide.
Touching the snake revealed why they are called 'file' snakes.... probably because they felt like workshop files... rough to the touch. ..like sandpaper.
Read more about it here :
http://www.wildsingapore.com/wildfacts/vertebrates/snakes/granulatus.htm
http://singaporesnakes.blogspot.com/search/label/Banded%20File%20Snake
http://mangrove.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/text/2112.htm
http://www.wildsingapore.per.sg/discovery/factsheet/snakefile.htm
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
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