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Mole Snake (Pseudaspis cana) - non-venomous, but can inflict a painful bite.
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Security guards from a complex near Big Bay called me earlier today to remove this subadult Mole Snake from a resident's garden.
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Mole Snakes are found in a variety of habitats, even mountainous regions and deserts, but they're particularly common in sandy scrub-covered and grassveld regions.
They spend most of their time underground, pushing their way through soft sand in search of moles and other rodents. Viviparous, they give live birth to anywhere between 25-50 babies in late summer.
Interestingly, juvenile (young) mole snakes have a variety of patterns and colors that they lose completely once they reach adulthood.
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Boomslang (Dispholidus typus) - venomous and very dangerous.
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I was called back to the same house in Big Bay where I helped a fellow local snake handler capture a Boomslang earlier in the week, late this afternoon for yet another Boomslang - a male this time.
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Boomslang are known for their strikingly large eyes - the largest of any African snake. Females are light to olive brown with dirty white to brown bellies, whereas males may have a variety of colors but usually present dark green on top with yellow bellies and black markings in-between their belly scales.
Shy and diurnal (active during the day), they spend most of their lives in trees and shrubs where they hunt eggs, birds, frogs, chameleons, and other tree-dwelling lizards.
Their venom is haemotoxic, which means that it affects the clotting mechanism in blood and leads to severe internal and external bleeding, or even haemorrhage if untreated. Although potent, the venom is slow-acting and may take more than 24 hours to produce serious symptoms - an effective anti-venom is available in some locations.
There are two common myths about the Boomslang: firstly, that they drop from trees onto people who walk by (they don’t), and secondly that because they’re rear-fanged they can only bite you on your little finger (they are rear-fanged, but can open their jaws 170 degrees and bite you almost anywhere on your body).
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Herald Snake (Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia) - mildly venomous.
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I was called out this morning to remove a snake that had gotten stuck between someone’s security gate and their kitchen door. The home owners kept an eye on the snake until I got there, after which it was easy to identify and capture it.
Herald Snakes are common in our area, and can often be found seeking shelter under rockeries or compost heaps in gardens. They’re especially common in marshy areas, fynbos, lowland forest, moist savannah, and grassland.
They prey mainly on toads, and when threatened they raise their flattened head horizontally whilst hissing and striking with the mouth open.
Oviparous, they lay 6-19 eggs in the summer.
Herald Snakes bite readily when threatened, but their venom is not thought to have any harmful effects on humans.
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Brown House Snake (Boaedon capensis) - harmless.
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Whilst hiking near Clanwilliam, I found several Brown House Snakes out in the veld.
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Also known as a "Bruinhuisslang", the Brown House Snake is a common animal found throughout all of South Africa.
They average 60-90 cm in length here in our area, and can reach lengths of up to 1.5 meters in KwaZulu-Natal. The white V-shaped markings that run from the tip of their snout through their eyes are very distinctive and make them easy to identify.
They're nocturnal (active at night) and actively hunt for rodents - this snake has the ability to consume an entire rodent family in a single session. Occasionally they eat small bats, birds, lizards, and frogs too.
Oviparous, they lay 8-18 eggs in the summer with young measuring 19-26 cm.
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