In a daring rescue operation, snake enthusiasts Jason Arnold and Nick Evans ventured beneath a busy road in KwaZulu-Natal to save three Southern African pythons.
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (11 October 2024) – KwaZulu-Natal snake enthusiast Jason Arnold dropped everything and headed straight to his “Snake Man Machine” when he received a call about three Southern African pythons that were spotted near a busy roadside.
Handling three pythons is no small job, which prompted Arnold to get some assistance from fellow snake rescuer Nick Evans.
In a video, the trained handlers, Arnold and Evans are seen at the scene where construction workers were working near a busy road when they saw the snakes in question.
Although they couldn’t find the snakes, the brave men returned the following day to continue the search for the serpents as they were in a place where their safety was greatly compromised.
After numerous and tiresome efforts, including the assistance of a TLB to dig the ground to better access the snakes, the rescuers eventually spotted the anxious snakes nestled underground before they safely removed them.
“This was such an awesome rescue to be involved in! A strange place to find pythons. The construction workers had spotted the two small males and a larger female.
“The rescue required a lot of patience, and then a lot of hard work. But it was so, so worth it,” said Evans who assured that snakes were released in a safer habitat.
Sources: Jason Arnold / Nick Evans
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