A Durban snake catcher had his hands full when he caught four black mambas in one day.
Nick Evans posted on social media about rescuing the gevaarlike slange, reports IOL.
“Yesterday was an absolutely crazy day. I caught four mambas, the most I’ve caught in a day,” Evans wrote on Facebook.
The first black mamba, a pregnant female that was 2.3m long, was found next to a road in Reservoir Hills.
Together with his friend Nick Saunders, they managed to rescue the mamba who was digging into the ground to lay her eggs.
“She’ll be released after she lays her eggs,” he says.
“When her eggs hatch, they too will be released.”
Next, Evans said a Chatsworth security company sent him a video of a snake slithering up a driveway.
At the house he found it was a black mamba – another female, weighing 3kg and measuring 2.6m – and caught it after noticing the tail sticking out from under a pile of bricks.
“I have never struggled to hold a mamba down like I did this one. Immense beast,” he said.
The third and fourth snakes were found at the same house in Queensburgh.
Evans said he received a call from the homeowner about a snake in her driveway.
After catching it, the homeowner asked him to check out a snake skin in the garden.
“What I actually found was a black male mamba basking in the sun,” said Nick.
He concluded: “This was one of the most amazing calls I’ve had, it was my lucky day.”