The birds go crazy over Westville Black Mamba
In this week’s Snake Rescue podcast with
Nick Evans he returns to a property in Westville, Durban that he’s been called to
numerous times before, to retrieve a very elusive Black Mamba from a cluster of
trees.
On the site, he finds things a lot more difficult than anticipated as the snake moves between two properties; he encounters a very protective dog and gets a little help from the local birds who go crazy whenever they spot the snake.
Also read: A Spitting Cobra under the couch? Yikes… Nick to the rescue!
"I always get excited to see my friend Armstrong's number pop up on my call screen. Armstrong works as a gardener in Westville, and he occasionally finds mambas or cobras – usually mambas - on the property,” says Nick.
Also read: Nick wades into flooded, cockroach-infested room to rescue mamba
“This time, he had spotted another Black Mamba in a cluster of trees. It didn't sound like an easy catch, and as it turned out, it wasn't!”
Listen now below.
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Nick's organisation, KwaZulu-Natal Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, is a chapter of The Lawrence Anthony Earth Organisation.
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