Predator Battle

Incredible spectacle of the Mother Nature in Kenya: a High Casqued Chameleon (Trioceros hoehnelii) is being a subject of a dispute between a snake - Boomslang (Dispholidus typus kivuensis) and a Rough-scaled Plated Lizard (Broadleysaurus major) /  who will swallow it at first?

Orig.: Ade-G (Flickr) Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/busterlung/*

Notes:"The lizards was eating the chameleon when the snake (female boomslang - Dispholidus typus kivuensis) came down from a tree swooped in from about 6 yards away. The snake won. I've never seen a snake move so fast." 

Dispholidus typus (boomslang) is native and restricted to Sub-Saharan Africa. Its distribution include Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Republic of South Africa (Eastern Cape etc.), Swaziland, Mozambique, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Zaire, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire; except in the center), Congo (Brazzaville), Angola, Zambia, from Senegal to Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Mali, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Benin, Togo, Sierra Leone, Guinea (Conakry), Liberia, Ghana, Burkina FasoThere are three subspecies: D. t. typus, D. t. kivuensis and D. t. punctatus of which D. t. kivuensis occurs in Kenya (Eldoret, Subukia). Boomslangs are one of the few snake species where sexual dimorphism is evident. Females are almost always brown, whereas males exhibit more vibrant coloration. So, this is an adult female Dispholidus typus kivuensis.

Photo Ade Gorst, courtesy FB Predation Records - Reptiles and Frogs (Sub-Saharan Africa)