What You Need to Know About the Stiletto Snake
Let’s say that you see a small dark snake in your house or in your garden. What do you do? Leave it alone? Or pick it up? Unfortunately, many people choose the latter option, and…
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DOGS AND SNAKES
As we head into summer, conflict between dogs and snakes is increasing, and we’re set to see more incidents in the next few months. Here are some things you should know about when these two…
Know your Green Snakes!
To some people, any green snake is a Green Mamba. Well, there are six species of Green Snakes in the Greater Durban Area, and only one of those is a mamba, and only two of…
Cape ‘Biobash’ Part 3
The third and final blog post about my recent Cape trip… On our third and final full day in the Western Cape was spent in West Coast National Park. After two sensational days of ‘frogging’,…
Cape ‘BioBash’ Part 2
After an extremely successful first day, my friends and I didn’t really care what we during the remainder of our short stay in the Cape. We’d seen more than what we had hoped for! But…
Cape ‘Biobash’ Part 1
I’d always wanted to explore the Western Cape and it’s biodiversity, and so when my friends (Nick Schaller & Darren Van Eyssen) asked if I wanted to join them on such a trip, I couldn’t…
The Chameleons of KZN
We in KwaZulu-Natal are lucky enough to have a good diversity of chameleons. We have 9 species occurring here, but 8 of the 9 species (one is yet to be fully described though), are endemic to KwaZulu-Natal, meaning…
TRIP REPORT: Ndumo adventure!
Last week, I was lucky enough to be a part of a research team who were headed for Ndumo Game Reserve, in northern KwaZulu-Natal. One of the researchers, Cormac, was looking for terrapins,…
Working with Black Mambas
Working with mambas can be somewhat difficult to describe, but I will try… The Black Mamba is the most notorious and feared snake in Africa. People think of it as this evil, aggressive, psychotic killer,…
The meaning and joys of ‘frogging’!
A lot of us, who are keen on frogs, often say to one another, “We’re going frogging”. Those who have never heard of the word give us the strangest of looks. “You’re going what?!” In…