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Online Course – Snake Awareness and First Aid for Snakebite

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Online Course – Beginners Guide to Snake Identification (Southern Africa)

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Live in Gauteng and keen to learn more about snake

Live in Gauteng and keen to learn more about snakes?
What to do when they're encountered? How to deal with snakebite emergencies? How to catch and relocate them?

Join us for our snake awareness, first aid for snakebite and venomous snake handling course. We run our Gauteng course on a monthly basis, and they are hugely poplar for people from all walks of life who want to learn more about our slithery friends.

Our next course takes place on the 31st of October 2020 Cradle Moon Lakeside Game Lodge in Muldersdrift.

Booking is essential and you can find the full course details on our website (link in bio) or email Ashley on admin@asiorg.co.za for details.

Our courses are presented by Johan Marais, one of Africa’s leading herpetologists with over 40 years of experience. Johan is a FGASA endorsed service provider and our courses are accredited by ISZS (the International Society of Zoological Sciences) and recognised by the AFGA (African Field Guides Association) and the NFTGA (National Federation of Tourist Guides & Affiliates).This course is registered with both the Health Professions Council of South Africa, and registered health professionals earn 4 CPD points, and the PCIPC (Pest Control Industry Professional Council) and registered members receive 3 CPD points when completing this course. Johan is a prominent author of snake books in Africa and has written the best sellers A Complete Guide to the Snakes of Southern Africa, Snakes and Snakebite in Southern Africa and First Aid for Snakebite. He is also the snake expert for the Tygerberg Poison Centre and the Red Cross Poison centre, as well as an advisor on snakes and snakebite to various hospitals and clinics throughout Africa.
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Brown House Snake (Boaedon capensis) hatching. Not

Brown House Snake (Boaedon capensis) hatching. Note the egg tooth on its nose - it is used to slice the eggshell from the inside and then falls off. This harmless constrictor is commonly found in suburban gardens where adults feed on rodents.
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Highly venomous Green Mamba (Dendroaspis angustice

Highly venomous Green Mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps). This snake occurs along the KwaZulu-Natal coast where it inhabits thick coastal bush usually close to the sea. As it extends northwards it is found further inland and reaches eastern Zimbabwe.
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We maintain a list of over 600 snake removers from

We maintain a list of over 600 snake removers from around Africa, which can be accessed and downloaded directly from our website (link in bio) or via our free app ASI Snakes.
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Dwarf Beaked Snake (Dipsina multimaculata) A sm

Dwarf Beaked Snake (Dipsina multimaculata)

A small well patterned snake that averages 30 - 35 cm but may reach 50 cm in length. This species varies in colour, from tan-brown to reddish with darker splotches. There is usually a light V on the at the base of the head. It lives on gravel planes with dispersed bushes in the Namib Desert, Karoo scrub and Arid savanna. It usually hides at the base of a bushes or rocks and will disappear down a hole if disturbed. It hunts lizards, ambushing them under bushes. It is a docile snake but may assume a coiled position when threatened, mimicking the Horned Adder. The venom of this species is virtually harmless to humans.
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A close-up photograph showing the short fangs of a

A close-up photograph showing the short fangs of a Black Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis). Like most of our elapids, the Black Mamba has short, fixed fangs in the front of the mouth, usually around 5 - 6 mm in length. These fangs are hollow like a hypodermic needle.
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We run our Cape courses on a monthly basis @butter

We run our Cape courses on a monthly basis @butterflyworldanimalsanctuary
in Klapmuts.
The full day course covers snake awareness, behaviour, identification, biology, as well as first aid for snakebite, scorpion sting and spider bite. We also teach delegates safe protocols for catching and releasing venomous snakes and delegates get to work with the snakes themselves, under the guidance of an experienced trainer.

Our course are presented by Johan Marais - author of numerous snake books, including Snakes and Snakebite and a Complete Guide to the Snakes of Southern Africa. Johan has over 40 years experience in working with venomous snakes, and his wealth of knowledge is shared on the courses.

Booking is essential, and can be done directly via our website (link in bio) or email Ashley on admin@asiorg.co.za for details.
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Southern Brown Egg-eater (Dasypeltis inornata). A

Southern Brown Egg-eater (Dasypeltis inornata). A harmless egg-eating snake that occurs from near Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape up the coast into most of KZN, western Swaziland, the eastern Free State, eastern Mpumalanga and Limpopo.
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The Boomslang (Dispholidus typus) is a placid snak

The Boomslang (Dispholidus typus) is a placid snake that rarely accounts for bites on humans. In a five year survey of close on 900 snakebites in Zululand where patients were hospitalised, only four Boomslang bites were recorded – not even one a year.
All were treated with Monovalent Boomslang antivenom and the patients recovered fully.
Having said that, there were two fatal Boomslang bites on children in Zululand in the past ten years. Snake handlers, while capturing Boomslang, do get bitten from time to time but because of the primitive Duvernoy’s glands most such bites are ‘dry bites’ with no symptoms.
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Common Snakes of the Cape Peninsula and Table Moun

Common Snakes of the Cape Peninsula and Table Mountain.
Another one of our FREE snake posters - available as high resolution from our website (link in bio)

For snake removers in the area, download the free ASI Snakes app - http://bit.ly/snakebiteapp. It lists over 600 snake removers from around South Africa and has snake profiles, first aid for snakebite info and an area to submit a photo to us for identification.
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East African Egg-eater (Dasypeltis medici) A ha

East African Egg-eater (Dasypeltis medici)

A harmless egg specialist that averages 60 cm but may reach 90 cm in length. This snake occurs from St. Lucia Village in Zululand northwards into Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe and elsewhere further north where it favours lowland evergreen forest and moist savanna.
Like the Common Egg-eater it will coil and uncoil when threatened or agitated, rubbing its strongly-keeled dorsal scales against each other to cause a rasping sound similar to a hiss. It will strike aggressively but is harmless and has no visible teeth.
Like other egg-eaters it will swallow a bird’s egg into the neck region and use bony protrusions in the vertebrate to crack the egg shell, it then crushes the egg and swallows the contents where after the crushed shell is regurgitated.
Females produce 6 – 28 eggs in summer.
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This is one of our largest cobras and may exceed 2

This is one of our largest cobras and may exceed 2.7 m in length. Adults are light to medium shiny brown that darkens towards the tail, the latter often black.

The Brown Forest Cobra is active both during the day and night and favours dense bush where it hunts for small mammals, birds, frogs and other snakes. It is extremely shy and quick to escape – bites are rare. When cornered it will lift its head well off the ground and spread a narrow hood.
It occurs from Ballito in KZN northwards into Mozambique and elsewhere further north. It has recently been found in the northern Kruger National Park and extreme southern Soutpansberg.

Forest Cobra venom is potently neurotoxic and cytotoxic. Polyvalent antivenom is effective against its venom.
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