SNAKE SEASON Starts 7 September at 18:00. Don't miss SNAKE SEASON a wildlife series of snake capture, rescue and release on People°sWeather this spring. Featuring a world renowned snake handler and conservationist Nick Evans from KwaZulu-Natal. #SnakeSeason

Did you know that #Pythons and #Boas have vestigial remnants of legs called pelvic spurs and femoral bones?! Check out this cool video! CT scanning is a great tool to study #biodiversity and #herpetology. Great visualization by Ramon Nagesan UMich Ecology and Evolutionary Biology!

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One of the longest Green Mambas I have rescued, at a construction site on the North Coast last week. A 2m male which construction workers were protective of thankfully! Unfortunately, Mambas here have had to deal with their habitat being destroyed recently. #conservation #snake

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Snake Season is back tonight 😎 😁🐍 Tonight's episode features two exciting yet challenging Black Mamba rescues! Tune in at 6PM on the People's Weather Channel (180) on DSTV! Repeat at 9PM and 10AM tomorrow morning. #snakes #Durban #southafrica #conservation #africa #wildlife

A HAMSTER THIEF! Read about how a Black Mamba came to visit a pet hamster, and it didn't end well for the hamster! facebook.com/13815102788310… #snakes #Durban #southafrica #kzn #wildlife #africa #reptiles #BlackMamba #conservation #hamster

Our hero?? Definitely this amazing traffic warden helping a turtle cross the road safely in Pakistan. We love to see it!!

Latest video on my YouTube channel, about a very well-hidden Puff Adder! youtu.be/F2VkbJbWhkc #snakes #Durban #southafrica #youtubechannel #YouTuber #youtube #YouTubers #PuffAdder #reptiles #conservation #wildlife

Something around here is apparently partial to gecko tails... How many geckoes can you spot in this pic? #wildoz

Tonight's episode of Snake Season, sees me going to rescue a different kind of reptile! For more details: facebook.com/13815102788310… #SnakeSeason #DSTV #PeoplesWeather #MonitorLizards #reptiles #durban #southafrica #africa #kzn #conservation #wildlife #lizard

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On Snake Season tonight, Johan Marais, of the African Snakebite Institute, will be talking to us about snakebite & venom, with an interesting demonstration. We'll also be learning about a rarely seen snake, and, of course there will be mamba rescues! #SnakeSeason #Durban #KZN

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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again...until your prey item uses you as a hiding place. At our Turtle Survival Center in South Carolina we feed a well-balanced diet to the turtles and tortoises there. For this young Indochinese Box Turtle (Cuora galbinifrons) that...

If you live in #KZN, please go to Forms.gle/2Z1W3b5W26pR7Y… to help our research on #NileMonitors in #KwaZulu-Natal. 🦎🦎 It only takes 5 to 10 minutes! Many thanks! 🙂 #Varanusniloticus #ukzn #varanidae #HAA #durban #pietermaritzburg #biawak #citizenscience #uxamu #likkewaan

Praying Manis lowered into water to entice out the parasite within! 🪱😱 video credit: Insect world.

Sneak peak of some cool parasites the NWU_WRG parasitologists are discovering here at Tsitsikamma while trying to see if MPAs do protect our hidden diversity. First up some dancing ergasilid copepods on the gills of the endemic South African mullet!! Linda Van Der Spuy

Have you ever seen a fish trypanosome making its way through blood cells? This is how they role!! Another great find of our MPAs protecting hidden diversity project! #ParasiteConservation NWU_WRG NWU Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management Chandra courtney cook Victor Wepener Wynand Malherbe