I prefer to keep my distance now, where I live, there are many cases of snake bite and the saddest thing that there are no serum, therefore they have died helpless child.
Good post, it is very important to respect nature, it is very true I have had several anecdotes with snakes, I remember once in the field with my older brother and my younger sister, who were sitting, and my brother told me silence and don't move, when a rattlesnake brushed my leg and left.
Very good, One more day reading your interesting and beautiful story, wow I can see around here that there is a snake in the story this will get Hissing
Snakes are the invisible enemy of pretty much anything that walks or crawls. Especially in Africa. During my work in Namibia - already forty years ago - I made a record leap backwards to avoid a tailed pufadder. Had he bit me, I was no longer in the land of... Show moreSnakes are the invisible enemy of pretty much anything that walks or crawls. Especially in Africa. During my work in Namibia - already forty years ago - I made a record leap backwards to avoid a tailed pufadder. Had he bit me, I was no longer in the land of the living. A doctor in Windhoek later told me that this is - with dot - the snake with the most fatalities in Africa.
@Leo 1 Yes the most common bites are from the puff adders. They and the cobra also have the most predictable actions. Mostly in defense with a warning before. Mamba on the other hand, no warning, and the bite to human is not in defense, it likes to show why it must be feared.
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