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Chasing mermaids in Zimbabwe
When two congregants drowned in a dam near Mhondoro village in Zimbabwe, it was said the men had transgressed the covenant the church had with the shrine’s guardian spirits
Don’t let the botanicals go to your head
A well-tailored punt gets a pleb out of Brixton in Johannesburg and shows him the sights, smells and tastes of the various larney silos in Cape Town
The battle to bring antivenoms to Africa
A shortage of snake antivenom in Africa is a "shameful failure"
‘Magic pythons’ married in Cambodia for luck
Hundreds of villagers in Cambodia have flocked to a wedding ceremony between a 4,8m and 90kg female python and her slightly smaller snake mate.
Italian traffickers hide cocaine under rare python
Italian police seized a rare albino python in Rome on Wednesday in a raid on a group of drug-traffickers.
Snakes declining at alarming rate, say scientists
Study suspects sharp decline in snake numbers in a variety of habitats in five countries is caused by habitat loss and prey.