Dasypeltis medici, known commonly as the East African egg-eater and the eastern forest egg-eater, is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae.

[3] D. medici is found in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

[2] The preferred habitat of D. medici is lowland evergreen forest.

[4] D. medici, like all species in the genus Dasypeltis, feeds exclusively on birds' eggs.

The egg is slit open by vertebral hypapophyses which extend into the esophagus.