- Where to see one
- 4 U.S. zoos in our directory hold green mamba, confirmed against each zoo's own animal list.
Conservation status
Not Evaluated
This species has not been assessed for the IUCN Red List, so it sits outside the threat scale entirely.
About the green mamba
The eastern green mamba is a highly venomous, slender snake native to coastal regions of southern East Africa, from Kenya south through Tanzania and Malawi to northern Mozambique, with an isolated population in South Africa. Adult females average around 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) in length and males are slightly smaller. The back is bright green and the belly pale yellow-green, camouflage in the trees where it spends most of its life. Despite its reputation, it is shy and elusive. It is active by day and sleeps at night coiled in foliage. It preys mainly on birds and their eggs and on small mammals including bats, often by sit-and-wait ambush.
Green Mamba facts
- It was once combined with the black mamba, and the two were split into separate species in 1946.
- Juveniles are blue-green and become bright green at about 75 centimetres.
- Females lay 4–17 eggs, in October and November.
- Other green snakes, including green boomslangs, are often wrongly called green mambas in Southern Africa.
Where to see green mamba in the U.S.
4 zoos across 4 states
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California· 1
Kansas· 1
Pennsylvania· 1
South Carolina· 1
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Built from each zoo's own published animal list.
