Swamp snake

A Swamp snake is an aggressive monster encountered during the Temple Trekking and Burgh de Rott minigames. When killed, a snake usually leaves behind a Dead swamp snake as its Remains. If the player's follower in the minigame becomes involved in combat with a swamp snake, the snake may drop regular Bones instead, even if the player kills the snake. With a toolbelt knife, dead swamp snakes have a left-click "Skin" option, which gives the player 2-5 swamp snake hides. These hides differ in colouring from the Snake hides obtained from Bush snakes but like bush snake hides can be tanned to make Snakeskin, used for Snakeskin armour.

They hit fairly hard with both melee and magic, but they seem to attack with Magic more often and are quite accurate, so Protect from Magic or Deflect Magic may be helpful if you are of a lower level.

Trivia

 * Swamp snakes have some inaccurate features real snakes do not have. For example, swamp snakes move with their head held up, whereas real snakes move with their head on the ground and only raise their heads when threatening attackers.
 * Swamp snakes are brown while the snake hides are greenish with yellow spots.
 * Damage over time effects (such as Fragmentation Shot) or poison will continue to do 1 damage to dead swamp snakes. Sometimes even the followers may attack the dead snake for 1 damage.