Nick wades into flooded, cockroach-infested room to rescue mamba

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A day after a wild and stormy evening of torrential rainfall, which caused flooding and severe damage to some areas in the Greater Durban area, Nick Evans was called to a container storage yard near Albert Luthuli Hospital. A large snake had just crawled into a flooded office.
“A flooded office? That's not a place I've caught a snake before!” says Nick.
“And it was not just a case of the floor being wet, or even ankle-high water levels. Or clean water, I might add,” added Nick.
Here, the mamba was the least of his worries!
Listen to hear how Nick handled this situation, and if he managed to rescue the snake. Find more here
28 Apr 2020 English South Africa Nature

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