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Mamba

Mamba — Photo: Hendrik van den Berg — CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Mambas are fast-moving, highly venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis (which literally means "tree asp") in the family Elapidae.

GroupReptileWhere it livesForest & jungle

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Mambas are fast-moving, highly venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis (which literally means "tree asp") in the family Elapidae.

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