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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)
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- The Saturday Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- July 8, 2006
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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; ...