Mole Snake (Pseudaspis cana) - non-venomous, but can inflict a painful bite.
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I captured this young Mole Snake at a dog park near Milnerton today - some local residents were walking their dogs and it lying on the grass.
Luckily they knew exactly what to do: they kept the dogs and other people away, a couple of them called me, and then they kept an eye on the snake until I arrived.
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, young mole snakes have patterns and colors that they lose completely once they reach adulthood.
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In this video with Dave Houreld from Helderberg Reptile Removal & Relocation, we show you how we check whether a snake is male or female.
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Not all of the snakes we deal with at Blouberg Snake Rescue (http://facebook.com/BloubergSnakeRescue) are wild ones. This is my pet Gray-Banded Kingsnake (Lampropeltis alterna), called "Noodle".
I got him from a breeder three weeks ago, and I've been a little worried because Noodle hasn't wanted to eat at all since then.
However, today he took food from me for the first time - it seems like he just had to get used to his new surroundings first!
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In this video I show you how to set up an easy system to capture your Snake Relocation data on your phone for later export to a spreadsheet.
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Boomslang (Dispholidus typus typus) - venomous & very dangerous if threatened.
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A Big Bay resident saw this Boomslang looking out from under his roof and called me to capture it for him.
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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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My Polaroid Cubr has served me well as an action camera whilst hiking, diving, even caving.
This is a test video I made after attaching it to my bow in order to see whether it would be a viable solution for recording hunting videos.
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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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Read more about this species here: https://bloubergsnakerescue.co.za/snake-profiles/pseudaspis-cana-mole-snake/
Find your nearest snake catcher's contact details here: https://snakeremoval.co.za/
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