The African Snakebite Institute has noted that these snakes seldom attack people and that fatalities are "virtually unheard ...

Predators are often judged by the size of the animals they can overpower. Yet in the wild, a successful hunt does not always end with a successful meal.

Black Mambas, Africa’s fastest and most feared snakes, can be a key player into tracking pollution, while at the same time keeping ecosystems healthy. New research from the University of the ...

A garage call in Durban turns into a quiet study of black mamba behavior, where a juvenile snake chose hiding over aggression, contradicting one of Africa's most persistent reptile myths.

South Africa’s landscapes carry a quiet tension that rarely makes itself obvious at first glance. Grasslands that look open ...

Snakebite envenoming is among the world's deadliest yet most overlooked tropical diseases. The WHO has classified snakebite envenoming as one of 21 neglected tropical diseases, resulting in between ...

Participants learnt about snake awareness, behaviour, biology, identification, myths, first aid for snakebite, scorpion sting ...