The African Snakebite Institute has noted that these snakes seldom attack people and that fatalities are "virtually unheard ...

Predators are often judged by the size of the animals they can overpower. Yet in the wild, a successful hunt does not always end with a successful meal.

DTU researchers are behind a potentially groundbreaking antivenom that could revolutionize the treatment of venomous snakebites in Africa. Snakebite envenoming is among the world’s deadliest yet most ...

South Africa’s landscapes carry a quiet tension that rarely makes itself obvious at first glance. Grasslands that look open ...

A garage call in Durban turns into a quiet study of black mamba behavior, where a juvenile snake chose hiding over aggression, contradicting one of Africa's most persistent reptile myths.

When a homeowner in Queensburgh, a suburb of Durban, South Africa, saw a thin snake sliding past him in his garage, he called snake rescuer Nick Evans. The snake turned out to be a young black mamba ...

Participants learnt about snake awareness, behaviour, biology, identification, myths, first aid for snakebite, scorpion sting ...