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“The six meter Black Mamba”
The image of “a monster 6 m Black Mamba” has been doing the rounds on Facebook since around 2012. The snake has mysteriously “been spotted” in Nelspruit, Richards Bay, the Gautrain construction site, Jwaneng Mine in Botswana, etc.
It was most commonly described as a picture of a snake that escaped in Louisiana when the Morganza Spillway was opened to relieve flooding pressures along the Mississippi River. It has also been circulated with text identifying it as a King Brown snake photographed in New South Wales (NSW), Australia; and a snake (of unidentified species) spotted in “Delray [Beach], near Tamarac, Florida.”
The bottom line is that it is indeed an Australian snake, but not a real life example of what may be found there. According to a discussion thread on reddit, the snake is a sculpture situated alongside Uralba Street in Alstonville, NSW, where one of the site’s members photographed herself with the artwork in January 2012.
Bottom line – a snake sculpture (see https://www.snopes.com/
Read more about Black Mamba’s here.
