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Serpentes: Colubridae: Grayia Ornata) in the Massif Du Chaillu, Gabon Hamadryad Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 136 – 141, 2002. Copyright 2002 Centre for Herpetology, Madras Crocodile Bank Trust. ETHNOZOOLOGY OF THE DIBOMINA (SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE: GRAYIA ORNATA) IN THE MASSIF DU CHAILLU, GABON Olivier S.G. Pauwels1, André Kamdem Toham2 and Victor Mamonekene3 1Department of Recent Vertebrates, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Rue Vautier 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium. Email: [email protected] 2WWF, Central African Regional Program Office, B.P. 9144, Libreville, Gabon. Email: [email protected] 3Institut de Développement Rural, Université Marien Ngouabi, B.P. 69, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. Email: [email protected] ABSTRACT.– Interviews with local people and direct observations in seven villages in the Massif du Chaillu, central-southern Gabon, revealed various uses of Grayia ornata, including: food consumption; medicinal use for delivery problems, preventive care for newborn babies, treatment of sprains and magic “vaccinations” to improve swimming or fishing abilities. The treatment of bites and various other beliefs, and observations by local people on the natural history of G. ornata were also recorded. KEY WORDS.– Colubridae, Grayia ornata, Massif du Chaillu, Gabon, ethnozoology, traditional medicine. INTRODUCTION MATERIALS AND METHODS During the course of conservation-oriented We interviewed local people about Grayia herpetological surveys conducted jointly by the ornata in seven localities within the Massif du Direction de la Faune et de la Chasse (DFC, Chaillu. All information was recorded in the Libreville), the World Wildlife Fund - Central presence of voucher specimens to avoid misun- African Regional Program Office derstandings by informants regarding the iden- (WWF-CARPO, Libreville) and the Wildlife tity of G. ornata. Voucher specimens were Conservation Society (WCS) in Gabon during deposited at the Institut Royal des Sciences May-November 2001 (see Bauer and Pauwels, naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB, Brussels) and 2002; Pauwels and Kamdem Toham, 2002; the Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale (MRAC, Pauwels et al., 2002a-c), an impressive amount Tervuren). In each locality, two groups of people of ethnoherpetological data were gathered. An were independently interviewed. Care was taken assessment of traditional use and importance in to ensure that no contact between the groups oc- local folklore of a target species’ is critical for ef- curred between interview sessions and only con- fective regional protection programmes. Here, sensual data are presented here. The list of we report on the relationships between several localities is given hereafter, with the names of the ethnic groups of the Massif du Chaillu in cen- main informants. tral-southern Gabon and the ornate water snake Localities visited- Boussimbi (11°49’16’’E, Grayia ornata (Barboza du Bocage, 1866), an 1°10’32’’S; Offoué-Onoy Dpt, Ogooué-Lolo aquatic colubrid snake which can be found in Province): Massango village; visited in Septem- streams and rivers in forested areas of Camer- ber and November 2001; informant: Chief oon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Jean-Claude Ndzohou; Guinea, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, - Diangui (11º49’23”E, 1º13’22”S; Republic of Congo and northern Angola Offoué-Onoy Dpt, Ogooué-Lolo Province): vil- (Chippaux, 1999; Pauwels, 1995). lage whose inhabitants are mainly Massango, October, 2002] ETHNOZOOLOGY OF THE DIBOMINA 137 with some Nzebi and Pouvi; visited in Septem- Dibomina is also the name given to this species ber and November 2001; informants: Mrs by the Pounou, Vili and Yombe in the Kouilou Marianne Moussounda, Chief Maurice Region in the Republic of Congo. South of the Boussengui, Mr Marcel Loundou, Mr Benjamin southern end of the Massif du Chaillu in the Re- Moukambi, Mr Théophile Yamouna; public of Congo, G. ornata is called munsioka by - Dikinga (11°42’43”E, 1°32’45”S; Ogoulou the Badondo, and bonongo by the Kongo in the Dpt, Ngounié Province): Babongo pygmy vil- vicinity of Brazzaville (V.M., pers. obs.). Nutri- lage near Diyanga; visited in July 2001; infor- tional uses.- All interviewed villagers regarded mant: Mr Patrice Mouélé; G. ornata as an excellent food, especially during - Diyanga (11°43’45”E, 1°30’56”S; Ogoulou the dry season “when it is the fattest” (particu- Dpt, Ngounié Province): village whose half is larly around July). The smallest specimens are occupied by Babongo pygmies and the other half usually disregarded by the adults, but are always by Massango; visited in July (7-14), September killed and eaten by the children. Specific hunting and November 2001; informants: Mr Antoine outings for this snake are never organised, but ef- Dingoudi and Mr Syriaque Moulengui; forts are made to capture all specimens that are - Iboundji (11°49’24”E, 1°13’14”S; casually encountered. Most specimens are actu- Offoué-Onoy Dpt, Ogooué-Lolo Province): a ally found trapped in fishing nets or hoop nets small town whose inhabitants are mainly (bidoubou in Nzebi), to which these piscivorous Massango; visited in September and November snakes are attracted when they contain a number 2001; informants: Mr Louis-Charles (Yala) of entrapped fishes. Specimens are also encoun- Makaho-Ipoungat, Lieut. Major Mathurin tered and killed by women when they explore Oyandji; holes in the river banks with their hands in search - Itsiba (11°58’41”E, 1°46’55”S; of silurids. This snake is thus also called nioga Boumi-Louétsi Dpt, Ngounié Province): village baguetu (‘women’s snake’) by the Pounou in the whose inhabitants are all Nzebi; visited in July Moabi area (Douigni Dpt, Nyanga Province) (15-23), September and November 2001; infor- (Koumba, Makaya, pers. comm., June 2002). mants: Mr Jean-Marie Ndongo, chief Ferdinand The snakes are prepared as follows: after be- Pandja, and Mr Jean-Euloge Pandja; ing killed with a stick or a machete, the snake is - Moudouma (12°03’12”E, 1°44’06”S; beheaded and its body placed on a fire in order to Boumi-Louétsi Dpt, Ngounié Province): Nzebi burn off its scales. The snake is then eviscerated, village; visited in September 2001; informant: the digestive tract discarded, and the body cut Chief Daniel Mouélé. into sections a few centimeters in length. These Voucher specimens are placed in a bush leaf (“feuille de brousse”, IRSNB 16242 (field nr P626): Itsiba, i.e., any large leaf found in the forest, often Matombo River, 9 Sept. 2001. Marantaceae) with salt, chopped onions and MRAC 2001-102-R-6 (field nr P562): chillis. The leaf is closed to form a bag Diyanga, 11 July 2001. (“paquet”) which is then placed in a cooking-pot with a small amount of water, or placed directly RESULTS on the embers. In the Congolese part of the Mas- Vernacular names.- In Gabon, Grayia ornata has sif du Chaillu, as well as in the Brazzaville area, been given a single common name, dibomina the meat of G. ornata is hung for a few days be- (plurial: mabomina), by the Loumbou, fore being prepared in this way, in order to make Massango, Pounou and Nzebi people, and is it more tasty (V.M., pers. obs.). called mouboyi by the Pouvi, otoubou by the Natural history.- All our informants refuted Obamba, and moléngué by the Babongo pyg- Chippaux’s (1999: 83) report that G. ornata can mies. The species is called ghébomina in hunt from branches overhanging streams, al- Mitsogho at Mokabo (Douya-Onoy Dpt, though these snakes were considered to be excel- Ngounié Province) (Yoga, pers. comm.). lent climbers and liked to bask on branches 138 HAMADRYAD [Vol. 27, No. 1, overhanging water, sometimes two to three me- edy for delivery problems during childbirth. ters high. When alerted, they fall into the water When a dibomina is killed and beheaded, the (as already reported by Perret and Mertens, head is placed in the smokehouse (“fumoir”) 1957: 593) and quickly disappear into holes in where, once smoked, it is carefully kept in a bush the banks. They are said to be solitary and to hunt leaf and usually hung by string from the roof in underwater at night, during which they actively order to protect it from rats and ants. If, after a explore every nook and crevice for prey items. It woman’s water has broken, she remains in labour is believed in the Lunda area of north-eastern for too long the medicine man (“charlatan”) em- Angola that G. ornata live in pairs (Laurent, ploys the following procedure. (Although for in- 1964: 102), but this is not held in our study area. stance in France or Belgium, the word charlatan The stomach contents are often revealed when is the equivalent of the English word quack (or the viscera are removed during preparation for bogus doctor), in Gabonese French this word is food. The most common prey noted by infor- not pejorative and corresponds to the word mants were fish (especially silurids), but frogs, tradipraticien). At Itsiba, the snake’s head is re- shrimps and small rodents were also sometimes moved from the smokehouse and pierced with a encountered in the stomachs. At Boussimbi, metal needle. The impaled head is put in a bush Diangui and Iboundji we were told that fish are leaf folded to form a funnel. Water poured strongly attracted by the smell of dibomina, and through the funnel is drunk by the mother. At so the fisherwomen search the places where this Moudouma, the dried head is simply put in a cup snake lives as they think there will be many of water for about ten minutes, and then the water fishes there. Perhaps in support of this belief, one is drunk. The head is then returned to the smoke- of us (V.M.) observed during the day in October house for storage and future use. The folk logic 1991 cyprinid fishes (genus Barbus Cuvier and behind this remedy is that, as the dibomina is fa- Cloquet, 1816) rushing and feeding on excre- mous for letting itself fall into the water head first ment defecated by G.
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