Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Black Mamba Striking

Bite of Black Mamba

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 3 Sep 2013 at 15:51:31 (UTC)

Original – A black mamba striking and displaying the black colouration on the inside of its mouth

Reason

Reasonable quality, considering the difficulty of taking a picture of a snake about to bite, and good EV for the taxonomy section.

Articles in which this image appears

Black Mamba

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Reptiles

Creator

Tad Arensmeier, Uploader: Sebastian80

• Support as nominator --Nikhil(talk) 15:51, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
• Support per nom, presuming it's hard to avoid slight motion blur in such situations. Brandmeister^talk 20:50, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
• Support good placement in the article for EV. --Pine^✉ 06:35, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:06, 3 September 2013 (UTC)