Black mamba coiled in lawnmower blades at Stanger

Your 'mess' could be black mamba heaven. Why? Because snakes love 'mess'. Messy homes, messy storerooms, mess around the house – such as piles of wood or bricks.

Mess provides shelter for snakes and is also usually where you’ll find the food they love: lizards and rodents.

So, if snakes love messy areas, you can imagine how happy one would be in a scrapyard. Especially one that's surrounded by cane fields (meaning lots of rodents) and chickens breeding on the property!

All of that food and shelter proved too irresistible for this very big black mamba at Stanger. Nick Evans has the details in episode 9 of Snake Rescue...

Nick's organisation KwaZulu-Natal Amphibian and Reptile Conservation is a chapter of The Lawrence Anthony Earth Organization.

Contact Nick on 072 809 5806 for snake removals. Email him if you'd like to find out about his educational talks.