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Published On: 2-7-2010
Source: Sunday Monitor

Even though the human population has hardly given them a chance to survive, ‘Kazibwe the Snakeman’ has sworn to protect reptiles and set up a conservation area to that effect , writes Martin Ssebuyira


.....I particularly like the line receiving specialised skills on how to rescue a snake from human attack.....wish our papers would write like that more often.

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What the?????
I mean, I've at least heard of the others, as ridiculous as they are, but "Snakes milk cows"?
Has anyone ever heard that rot before? Is that a "common myth"?

Some common snake myths:
  • The Death Adder has a sting in its tail.
  • Snakes hypnotise their prey.
  • Tiger Snakes chase people.
  • Snakes milk cows.
  • If you kill one of a pair of Tiger Snakes, its mate will hunt you down to take its revenge.
  • In Australia, there is a Hoop Snake that takes its tail in its mouth and then goes bowling merrily along.
 
Yes , I have heard this story from dairy farming people about 40 years ago.

They should have known better. The snakes hang around dairies because of the rats that pick up the cow feed.
 
What the?????
I mean, I've at least heard of the others, as ridiculous as they are, but "Snakes milk cows"?
Has anyone ever heard that rot before? Is that a "common myth"?
I've heard it before, and worse. There was a recent news article where some "advice" in the comments section was, if bitten, to rub milk onto the bite site. This in turn, leads to the question "how do some people learn how to turn the computer on?"
 
What the?????
I mean, I've at least heard of the others, as ridiculous as they are, but "Snakes milk cows"?
Has anyone ever heard that rot before? Is that a "common myth"?
Yep, thats why the Milk Snake is called the Milk Snake. They were thought to drink milk from cows udders.
 
The one about milk is actually possibly based on fact
In Africa breast feeding women have an absolute fear of cobras
In India most handlers feed cobras milk for every second feed

So quite possibly there is/was some truth in this??
 
Kazibwe better watch his back, calling himself 'snakeman'. I smell litigation!
 
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