Snakes on routes

[Benjamin]

So we found this little critter dead on the cycle lane ... anyone know exactly what it is?

 

Anaconda .

[Piston ZA]

So we found this little critter dead on the cycle lane ... anyone know exactly what it is?

 

Not sure, but could be a Rhombic/Spotted Skaapsteker

[Odinson]

Not sure, but could be a Rhombic/Spotted Skaapsteker

 

Skaapsteker? Must be an Australian species then. 

[Hairy]

thought you guys were pro's ..... come one ... someone name it

[Chingy182]

So we found this little critter dead on the cycle lane ... anyone know exactly what it is?

 

Post it to the group Snakes of South Africa on Facebook.

You'll get a positive ID within a minute

[Piston ZA]

Post it to the group Snakes of South Africa on Facebook.

You'll get a positive ID within a minute

Was just about to say the same, you'll get an ID there.

[Hairy]

Post it to the group Snakes of South Africa on Facebook.

You'll get a positive ID within a minute

sorry to say .. Facebook ... what's that?

[OneLove]

^{Looks like a Mole snake.} 

[Piston ZA]

sorry to say .. Facebook ... what's that?

With your permission, I can post on there for you if you want.

[Hairy]

^{Looks like a Mole snake.} 

So I don't use Facebook ... but used Twitter!

 

[Hairy]

With your permission, I can post on there for you if you want.

please do, may help for a cross check

[Piston ZA]

please do, may help for a cross check

Jip, confirmed on there too, a teenage Australian aka Spotted Skaapsteker

[Hairy]

Jip, confirmed on there too, a teenage Australian aka Spotted Skaapsteker

shotto!

[Li Mu Bai]

I have not heard this, but in my own opinion, I would rather have a tourniquet slowing the spread of venom rather than not. Especially if a highly venomous snake such as a puff adder or cobra has bitten you and you are far from help. If you get bitten on the Tygerberg MTB trails, then you are close to plenty hospitals and Tygerberg Poison Unit is close at hand as well. If you are out in the "sticks", then knowing how to act, and how not to act can be the difference between keeping a limb or not, even dying is possible without the right treatment.

 

But in all this, my advice would be to go get some sound medical advice as final confirmation of action taken if bitten by a snake.

 

V12Man, your input is welcome.

Tourniquet often leads to amputation. Dont do it.

 

Immobilization and a Pressure bandage along the entire limb to reduce the rapid spread of venom through the lymphatic system, is what should be done. You are not aiming to cut off blood circulation with a pressure bandage.

 

You can see a full description in Johan Marais book "A complete guide to the Snakes of Southern Africa" 2nd edition 2004 - Struik.

Johan is also a regular on the FB group.

[NotSoBigBen]

Sadly this fellow's time had passed, having said that I wasn't getting any closer just in case

 

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[Jaguar Shark]

Last week went for a trail run outside of Grahamstown EC, was skipping along my merry way admiring the pretty aloes and rocks along the trail when out of the corner of my peripheral I saw a long snakey shaped thing lying length-ways across the trail, this was on a downhill section so I'm motoring at quite a pace, I instinctively jump just as I'm coming over a large puff adder which is hissing and inflating as I'm soaring over it majestically in slow motion. I land on my feet again and increase my speed 1000 fold as the adrenaline hits and I scream profanities for the next 3 minutes at the top of my lungs... Wasn't pleasant but must've been hella funny to the people behind me.