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Images never before captured on film explore the secret world of the black mamba — an amazing creature with a terrible reputation. The black mamba is known as the fastest, most aggressive venomous snake in the world, and tales of its fierceness are unrivaled. Meet people who have come face to face with the snake and lived to tell the tale. Follow Donald Strydom, a black mamba specialist in South Africa, who faces mambas every day in an effort to protect them and educate people about these so often misunderstood snakes.