{"id":655,"date":"2025-07-23T21:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=655"},"modified":"2025-07-23T21:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:45:09","slug":"mongoose-interacts-with-deadly-puff-adder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"Mongoose Interacts With Deadly Puff Adder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A mongoose showed off it\u2019s speed and agility as it fought a ferocious battle with a venomous snake. Physically, a mongoose might be quite small, but they makes up for this with their tenacity. This one forced a snake into a pitched battle on the H1-3 in the Kruger National Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiZqdG6ciWoJ1eRMKvG5npotU621q-vQOxTcnRo8Yo51KxQLAIiDBvSVDdBE5SFmaPQI0TH_Mmi6SLJe1bYraZ5-df4EIQZZLl-3VeBDEnjRqy_RRzvuapkFoki2gv4bDQrNqczY5g4ost23iaG0mMGvJGFwQgPdvPP4CRjC_BCmj9PJS6T-ZLf3BWOd2E\/s1600\/Mongoose%20Interacts%20With%20Deadly%20Puff%20Adder.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wessel, a safari goer, caught the fight on camera three kilometers from Satara and sent it in to Latest Sightings. Snakes are known for their speed and lightning-fast strikes, but mongooses are no slouch, making this an even match<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Slender Mongoose Interaction With Puff Adder (Black &amp; White) - Latest Wildlife Sightings\" width=\"735\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wmtpQF6gKro?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The snake, a puff adder, is incredibly dangerous. It has strong venom, and causes a high number of human deaths across the African continent, but that means less to the mongoose than one might expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mongoose showed off it\u2019s speed and agility as it fought a ferocious battle with a venomous snake. Physically, a mongoose might be quite small, but they makes up for &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}