Mamba sneaks into kitchen sink in Sezela
A woman was about to wash another load of dishes when the snake got into the sink.
An elderly woman from Sezela was busy doing the dishes at her house when an unwanted visitor snuck into the kitchen last Friday.
The woman was packing away some dishes before doing another load when she spotted a green snake climbing the curtain rail. It then took refuge in the kitchen sink beneath a pink bucket.
With quick thinking, the woman’s son immediately contacted Crocworld Conservation Centre for assistance.
“We arrived to find a very nervous, machete-wielding, elderly lady shouting about a snake,” said Wade Kilian, reptile curator at Crocworld.
“Fortunately, her son had alerted the reptile team in time and she had not attempted to kill the snake herself.”
The snake, which was identified as a 1.7m green mamba, was discovered by the Crocworld team still in the kitchen sink.
Wade added that they strongly advise residents not to approach or attempt to kill any snake species, but to rather contact Crocworld to safely remove them.
“Not only are some of these species threatened and, therefore, protected by law, but most snake attacks happen when humans try to move or kill them.”
The green mamba was safely removed and later released into a wildlife habitat, away from humans.
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