‘There’s a green mamba in my kitchen sink!’ screams machete-wielding mom: A KwaZulu-Natal south coast woman recently received the shock of her life when she discovered a 1.7m green mamba in her kitchen sink.
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. “We encourage residents not to approach or attempt to kill any snake species but rather to contact us to safely remove it.species threatened and therefore protected by law, but most snake attacks happen when humans try to move or kill them.”
Kilian said once the snake had been removed from the kitchen, it was safely released into a wildlife habitat away from humans.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.
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