Click to see ‘cutest’ baby boomslang photos
Loca snake catcher, Nick Evans has since released the eight baby snakes into the same area their mother was released.
WHILE ‘cute’ and ‘boomslang’ are two words not often used in the same sentence, local snake catcher, Nick Evans shared photos of a clutch of the recently hatched reptiles and they are to die for.
In September last year Evans shared the rescue of the mother boomslang.
It was found in a pile of firewood in the Upper Highway area.
He caught her and, some time during that evening, she laid a clutch of eight eggs, which Evans discovered the next morning.
“I collected the eggs, incubated them in a cupboard in a warm room and, nearly four months later, they hatched!” said an ecstatic Evans.
All eight of the snakes hatched and Evans described them as nothing short of ‘absolutely gorgeous’.
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He noted that boomslang take longer than most snakes to hatch, usually within 60 to 75 days.
“The young are now exploring the wild, in the same area the mother came from. Little boomslang are the cutest!” he said.
Evans warned that even at such a young age they produce potent haemotoxic venom, like their parents, and urged readers not to try and touch them.
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