Green Mamba found on cargo ship in Aberdeen
One of the deadliest snakes in the world, Green mamba has been found on a cargo ship arrived from Africa, docked in Aberdeen on 9th November 2016. The extremely venomous reptile’s bite can kill a human in less than thirty minutes without anti-venom held in London almost 400 miles away from Aberdeen.
The crew of the ship put the snake into a box themselves after contacting Scotland’s SCPA. A police escort was called in to help animal officers as they collected it.
According to Scottish SPCA chief inspector John Carle “ The green mamba snake is usually found in African rainforests and feeds on tiny birds, rats, frogs and lizards and are one of the most deadly snakes in the world.”