{"id":4351,"date":"2010-07-01T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T18:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=4351"},"modified":"2010-06-27T20:26:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T18:26:41","slug":"wild-encounter-in-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/01\/wild-encounter-in-botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild encounter in Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t tell my parents, they’d think that I am in danger any time I go to a wildlife photo trip in Africa! Here is one of the encounters done one the rough tracks of the Moremi National Park (Botswana).<\/p>\n

\"Cobra<\/a>
Cobra du Cap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Don’t be fooled; The protruding tongue is no trouble for you. On the contrary, remember the specifics of this snake: The cobra is able to spit its venom right in the eyes of its victim\/prey (By the way, I had just found a scientific paper describing how a researcher determined how such a snake can aim so precisely into the moving eyes of its prey, mostly by intelligent anticipation and selection of the right moment: How spitting cobras shoot for the eyes<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Here, I believe that it was a Cape Cobra (also known as yellow cobra), but if an expert can confirm the identification or correct my amateur opinion, feel free to tell.<\/p>\n

Cape Cobra (Naja nivea<\/em>), Cobra du Cap.
\nMoremi National Park, Botswana. May 2010.<\/p>\n

PS: Oh yes! I forgot to tell that I was in a car and using a long tele lens (400mm focal length). And the snake was real big!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t tell my parents, they’d think that I am in danger any time I go to a wildlife photo trip in Africa! Here is one of the encounters done one the rough tracks of the Moremi National Park (Botswana). Don’t be fooled; The protruding tongue is no trouble for you. On the contrary, remember the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,19,47],"tags":[1204,1229,2247,1230],"class_list":["post-4351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo","category-photo-safari","category-wildlife-photo","tag-botswana","tag-cobra","tag-photo","tag-snake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}