Page 12 - Deadliest Snakes

A black mamba feeds after capturing a rodent. Like all snakes, it
swallows its prey whole.

South Africa. Nathan Layton was helping to capture a

black mamba that had roamed into the school when
he was struck on the index finger. Not realizing what
had happened, Layton continued on to class. But thirty
minutes later he started to feel ill. He whispered to his in-
structor that his vision had gone blurry—and things hap-
pened very quickly from that point on. “A few seconds

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