A black mamba that slipped into a room in Welbedacht West, west of central Durban gave residents a nerve-wracking evening last week but vanished just as snake catcher Nick Evans arrived to remove it. Residents called him to the area after the highly venomous snake was spotted under a bed, leaving the household “understandably” unwilling to spend the night indoors. “I arrived to nervous yet excited residents who had done what I had asked – watched that it hadn’t come out of the bedroom,” Evans said.
“So we had no doubt it was in the bedroom. Until I searched for it…” What followed was an intense and meticulous search of the small room. Evans checked under the bed, inside cupboards, behind furniture and even between planks of thin wood nailed to a corrugated iron wall with no sign of the snake.
I was thinking that there may be a hole leading outside, desperately hoping that wasn’t the case. The breakthrough came when Evans focused on a cupboard closest to where the mamba had last been seen. After moving clothes aside and climbing inside on his hands and knees, he suddenly heard movement.
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“I suddenly heard movement, and reversed out of there at record speed,” he said. “The sound I heard was most definitely a black mamba moving around.” Even then, the snake remained hidden. Evans lifted floorboards and searched again before climbing back in to pinpoint the sound.
With surety that it was on the side of the cupboard between two pieces of wood he had yet been able to check withoutout breaking them, he shone his phone’s torch. “Using my phone to peer into a narrow gap, I finally spotted the mamba curled up out of reach,” he said.
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