Stamp: Black Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) (Botswana 2002)

Black Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) (Botswana 2002)

22 March (Botswana ) within release Snakes goes into circulation Stamp Black Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) face value 50 Botswana thebe

Stamp Black Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) in catalogues
Michel: Mi:BW 736
WADP Numbering System - WNS: WAD:BW 001.02

Stamp is horizontal format.

Also in the issue Snakes:

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Stamp Black Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) in digits
Country: Botswana
Date: 2002-03-22
Size: 40 x 28
Emission: Commemorative
Format: Stamp
Face Value: 50 Botswana thebe

Stamp Black Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) it reflects the thematic directions:

Snakes are elongated, limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes  Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads (cranial kinesis). To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have independently evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs at least twenty-five times via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. These resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal (see Amphisbaenia, Dibamidae, and Pygopodidae).

Stamp, Black Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) , Botswana,  , Snakes