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Overview
A small, gentle, day-active snake of damp grassland and paddy margins that feeds mostly on frogs and toads.
How to recognise it
- 1Two pale buff or yellow stripes running along the back
- 2Olive or grey-brown body with dark crossbars on the front half
- 3Yellowish lips and rough, keeled scales
Where it lives
Grassland, paddy field margins, marshes and gardens near water, from the lowlands to the hills.
