The man holding this snake previously killed snakes. Today he is holding an olive snake | Nick Evans
Durban — Education and understanding turned one man’s snake fear into fascination, featuring an up-close encounter with a docile olive snake and four compelling reasons to preserve these essential predators.
Durban snake rescuer Nick Evans said a man who previously killed snakes, overcame his fear. Today he does not fear snakes
“With a bit of education, his attitude towards snakes changed, and he overcame his fear, as you can see,” Evans said, describing it as a rewarding moment.
“In his hand is the olive snake I recently caught. It’s such a docile animal.”
The answer to his question was:
Evans added he is waiting for the snake to shed so he can photograph it and then set it free.
Recently, Evans explained that the snake species is no longer classified as a house snake. It was now part of the water snake genus.
However, to him, they will always be olive house snakes, but their proper name now is olive snake.
This was his first encounter with this species in about five years.
He was called to find a snake in a massive wood pile in Pinetown. He moved a few pieces of wood, and to his joy, there was the beautiful olive snake.
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