Africa’s coolest pest control agents have fangs, no overheads and a killer instinct. Enter the puff adder (Bitis arietans) — ...

Puff adders protect African crops by eating rodents. They outcompete mammals during outbreaks and need no care.

The puff adder is the deadliest snake in Africa. With a wide distribution, common occurrence, large size (growing up to 75 inches or 190 centimeters), long fangs, and a habit of sitting silently ...

"Right there, I saw a snake devouring another ... "One thing we did notice was that the tail of the puff adder was still wiggling even when it was mostly inside the cobra. It wasn't just muscle ...

A puff adder's bite can do serious damage, even to an animal with skin as thick as a rhino's. The photographic evidence we have is not pretty. Can We Predict the Universe’s Randomness — or Is ...

The dogs were, however, able to locate the scent collected off the freshly shed skin of a captive puff adder, though the snakes typically defecate at the site of shedding before moving on.

the National Parks Service says eastern hognose snakes will hiss and flatten their heads out like a cobra if they’re threatened. They’ve been nicknamed the “puff adder” and “spreading ...

The Puff Adder (bitens arietans) is one of only two highly venomous snakes found in the Vaal Triangle – the other being the Rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus) – and feeds on a massive range of ...

A Cape cobra was devouring a puff adder before his very eyes, slowly gulping its body down as the live snake wriggled helplessly. “We were on our way back to camp in the late afternoon.

“This Puff Adder was seen in someone’s garage and had actually hitched a ride back with them (unknown to them) in their car. Fortunately, I have the location and the snake will be returned to its ...

Natal, confronted a potentially life-threatening situation when he discovered a Puff Adder—a snake notorious for its lethal ...

According to Bulawula LC 1 chairman David Ssebalijjo, the deceased had long dealt in the capture and sale of snakes to especially traditional healers before he was bitten by a Puff Adder.