Hiding python turns out to be puff adder

Snake catcher Sarel van der Merwe recently caught his fourth puff adder in Gamalakhe.

“I attended a call out for a python. However, when I arrived the python turned out to be a puff adder, hiding under pieces of roof sheeting and rubble,” he said.

This particular snake’s venom is potently cytotoxic, causing severe pain, swelling, blistering and in many cases severe tissue damage.

All reptiles produce eggs but the puff adder does ‘give birth’ to live young.

The eggs are in fact produced, but these eggs are carried within the mother during incubation and the young snakes hatch from the eggs before they emerge from her.

Spring is approaching, which snakes will start to come out of hibernation.

If you need a snake rescued or removed contact Sarel on 082 6831604.

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