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‘There’s a green mamba in my kitchen sink!’ screams machete-wielding momA KwaZulu-Natal south coast woman recently received the shock of her life when she discovered a 1.7m green mamba in her kitchen sink.
The elderly Sezela resident's son immediately called the Crocworld Conservation Centre to remove the reptile.
“I received a call from a young man in Sezela about a large snake discovered in the kitchen,” said Wade Kilian, reptile curator at the centre in Scottburgh.
“Apparently his mother had been packing away dishes before doing another load when she spotted the snake climbing a curtain rail. It took refuge in the kitchen sink beneath a bucket, which is where we found it.”
Kilian said he arrived to find a very nervous, machete-wielding elderly woman shouting about a snake.
"Fortunately her son had alerted the reptile team in time and she had not attempted to kill the snake herself,” he said.
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Green mambas are carnivores and will eat eggs, birds, frogs, lizards, rodents and other small mammals. Green mambas are mostly solitary and aren’t known to be territorial.
They prefer coastal areas with dense, shaded vegetation and tend to live in trees.
Female green mambas will lay four to 17 eggs at a time that hatch after around three months. Green mambas can live for up to 14 years.
Green mambas have short, fixed fangs at the front of their mouths and are highly venomous.
highly venomous.
Wanna bet? Stick around long enough on the blogs and someone is sure to report a wild snake on the prowl