When a human approaches the mother disappears down a hole, abandoning her young.

We don't have a measure of abundance or population density of a single snake in Africa. We need that information to make well-founded decisions about how threatened species are and we don't have it... it's a big conservation need.

I had reports from farmers that they had seen baby snakes and their mothers out together and I thought, this is crazy.

This shows that behavior in snakes is more complex than we previously thought.

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.