Common Brown Water Snake (Lycodonomorphus rufulus) - harmless.
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Some Melkbosstrand residents found this little snake in their swimming pool this morning, and called me to capture it.
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Nocturnal and aquatic, these snakes swim very well. They’re usually confined to damp localities near streams and rivers, and although mainly active at night may hunt along shaded streams during the day.
It feeds on frogs, tadpoles, small fish and occasionally nestlings and rodents. Oviparous, it lays 6-23 eggs in mid-summer with young measuring 15-22cm.
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Mole Snake (Pseudaspis cana) - non-venomous, but can inflict a painful bite.
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A neighborhood watch member in Melkbosstrand saw this big Mole Snake entering a resident's garden, then called me to remove it.
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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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Common Egg-Eater (Dasypeltis scabra) - harmless.
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I was called out earlier today to remove this juvenile Common Egg-Eater from a shop in Big Bay.
A couple of days I ago I was called out for a small snake in one of the neighbouring shops and couldn't find it, I think this was likely the same one.
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Although completely harmless, people often get a fright and kill Egg-Eaters due to their defensive posturing - they coil their bodies and rub their keeled scales against each other to produce a loud hissing noise, then flatten their head and open their mouth whilst pretending to strike:
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In reality they barely have any teeth, and they are completely harmless!
Mainly nocturnal, Egg-Eaters feed exclusively on birds' eggs. They have sharp protrusions on the inside of their spine that they use to crack an egg open after they've swallowed it, then they spit the shell back out.
Oviparous, they lay 6-25 eggs in summer.
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