Article: Tough Texan tackles our reptiles; Wild-at-heart adventurer gets a python to bite and says Africa's black mamba is the most dangerous snake in the world.(News)

BYLINE: Michael Schmidt

What propels an American academic to leap out of a helicopter in the Pilanesberg National Park and dive head-first down an aardvark hole to grab a huge and very angry African rock python by the tail?

A boyhood love of snakes, combined with his work on a National Geographic Channel film documenting the most lethal "bad boys" of the snake world - that's what.

And that's exactly what herpetologist Dr Brady Barr, the National Geographic Society's resident snake-charmer and crocodile-wrangler, did last week as he tracked down Southern Africa's contenders in the killer-snake category: the python; black mamba; snouted cobra; ...

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