{"id":41,"date":"2012-08-14T09:56:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T07:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ark-kzn.co.za\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2017-12-18T15:16:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T13:16:34","slug":"black-mamba-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ark-kzn.co.za\/?page_id=41","title":{"rendered":"Black Mamba Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Black Mamba Research Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Black Mambas (Dendroaspis polylepis) have for the longest time been vilified by mainstream media and the general public as a whole.\u00a0 Much of this can be attributed to their reputation as being \u201caggressive and confrontational\u201d which is more often than not exaggerated or misinterpreted by fearful \u201cvictims\u201d and perpetuated by the uninformed.<\/p>\n<p>ARK-KZN\u2019s primary focus is education and for this to succeed it needs to be based on documented and researched facts. It is in this light that the above project is being conducted. There is currently no consolidated database of information pertaining to reptiles in KwaZulu-Natal. ARK-KZN has the capability and critical member knowledge to establish and maintain such a database.<\/p>\n<p>Our aim with this project is to micro-chip each Black Mamba (&gt;1.8 m) caught by nominated catchers in order to establish growth rates, migratory patterns, territorial behaviour, reptile \u2013 human confrontations and all\u00a0relevant geographical data.<\/p>\n<p>To date\u00a0an amount of 51 Black Mambas have been caught, recorded, micro-chipped and released thus far . With this being a long term project we can expect this number to rise significantly over the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Mamba Research Project Black Mambas (Dendroaspis polylepis) have for the longest time been vilified by mainstream media and the general public as a whole.\u00a0 Much of this can be attributed to their reputation as being \u201caggressive and confrontational\u201d which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ark-kzn.co.za\/?page_id=41\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ark-kzn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ark-kzn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ark-kzn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ark-kzn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ark-kzn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ark-kzn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/ark-kzn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/190"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ark-kzn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ark-kzn.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}