Puff Adders' Dominance Display

Puff Adders' Dominance Display

Grootbos Foundation

Puff Adders' Dominance Display

Get ready to chuckle! Our entomologists stumbled upon these two impressive male Puff Adders 'puffies' while returning from an insect survey in the conservancy. What a fortunate and unexpected sighting of a natural dominance display! 

Puff Adders' Dominance Display

Grootbos Foundation

Grootbos Foundation is a registered non-profit organisation in Gansbaai committed to conserving the Cape Floral Kingdom and uplifting the communities that reside within it. The foundation protects more than 22,200ha of fynbos landscape and biodiversity on Grootbos Private Nature Reserve and the Walk...

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