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Inside Kenya's venom extraction snake farm

Bio-Ken Snake farm manager Boniface Momanyi extracts Venom from a green mamba. (Jenipher Wachie, Standard)

He feeds spitting cobras, handles puff udders, and helps black mambas reproduce. He also cleans a cage that hosts two 20-inch pythons.

His biggest interest is in the ones with the sting of death; the likes of boom slangs, carpet vipers and black neck spitting cobras. “I tiptoe, grab both heads at the same time. I then hand them over, tail first, to my colleagues who are always on standby,” he says.

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