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15-12-2021, 12:55 PM
By Lianne Kolirin, CNN
Updated 1546 GMT (2346 HKT) December 14, 2021
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Rob Wild, a British stock market trader who moved with his Costa Rican wife to South Africa 18 years ago, told CNN on Tuesday: "The cats were peering into the tree and my wife said 'there's probably a mouse in there somewhere.'"
They soon discovered a rather different animal staring back, however -- a boomslang.
"I didn't know what it was at the time but then I Googled what snakes are in our area and it came up immediately as a boomslang. I thought 'holy Moses, this is the king of all poisonous snakes,'" the 55-year-old said.
The boomslang is known as a shy species, but it is one of the most venomous in Africa. The animal's venom causes hemorrhages and can be fatal to humans in small amounts.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/14/afric...index.html
Updated 1546 GMT (2346 HKT) December 14, 2021
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Rob Wild, a British stock market trader who moved with his Costa Rican wife to South Africa 18 years ago, told CNN on Tuesday: "The cats were peering into the tree and my wife said 'there's probably a mouse in there somewhere.'"
They soon discovered a rather different animal staring back, however -- a boomslang.
"I didn't know what it was at the time but then I Googled what snakes are in our area and it came up immediately as a boomslang. I thought 'holy Moses, this is the king of all poisonous snakes,'" the 55-year-old said.
The boomslang is known as a shy species, but it is one of the most venomous in Africa. The animal's venom causes hemorrhages and can be fatal to humans in small amounts.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/14/afric...index.html
