They are venomous, hide and spit in your food. And you can die from that.
Those and other stories wander between the people in The Gambia. So, not only to counteract, but also raise awareness for animals and their habitats under the students from the Rhema Abam school, we planned a trip to the snake farm in Kartong. The kids were supposed to conceve knowledge about those animals and get to know them through direct contact. Followig the kids expressed their impressions with pictures.
After getting to meet the animals, there was a visit to the coast at the border to Casamance, a landscape that extends along the same-titled river in the south of Senegal, between Gambia and Guinea-Bissau.
So… what does the chef of the snake farm say? A wildlife biologist from France:
“Geckos are completly harmless. There urin is quite firm -a white firm mass that is excreted along with the black excrements- and they can’t spit. Their whole metabolism is fitted to a life in trees, were isn’t a lot of water. I have already caught around 100 geckos here and was bitten very often. It hurts a bit, because they are stronger than they look but they pinch you harder than they bite.“
