I spent 5 months in Kenya and one of the lads found a snake in his sleeping bag and kept it in some wire basket cage thing and he used to get it out and try and hand feed it every so often ... After about a week one of the Masai warriors that were with us seen it and started panicking as it was a female boomslang ... A highly venomous snake ... We didn't know what it was as the briefings we were given showed the boomslang as a green coloured snake ... Nobody told us the female was brown lol ........