Andreas Kieling is actually familiar with wild animals from his job. The wildlife filmmaker has had one or two magnificent specimens in front of his lens. But now his work had life-threatening consequences for him.
In an interview with the “Teleschau” agency, from which “Focus Online” quotes, among other things, Kieling now reveals why he recently had to cancel an appointment. “I’ve just come from Namibia, where we have a water well drilling project,” said Kieling. “I lived like the locals in a corrugated iron hut. Suddenly my dog ??started digging through my things. I then saw a snake’s tail disappear under my things,” says the documentary filmmaker.
He turned everything upside down to find the snake. It was a black mamba. “When I had it, I wanted to take a selfie with the snake before I carried it far away,” quoted the “Bild” newspaper. For this he “pulled up his lips to the side with a stick so that you can see the fangs nicely. At that moment she “bited her left index finger with a fangs,” says Kieling.
A bite with dire consequences. Normally the poison is deadly, Kieling explained in an interview with “Teleschau”. “You live about two to four hours. She only injected a little bit of poison. I was paralyzed, breathing stopped almost completely. I lay between life and death and my guide’s wife was doing wet wipes and the occasional mouth -to-mouth resuscitation because I was choking,” he said. After a few days he felt better, but he suffered from cardiac arrhythmias.
In fact, the black mamba wasn’t the first snake to give the cameraman a bad time, but the third. Kieling was once bitten by a poisonous sea snake on the Komodo Islands.
However, the incident did not really upset him. “I’m the most chilled person west of the Rhine. If I wasn’t, the animals wouldn’t put up with me at all because they would say: ‘That guy is unbearable,'” says Kieling.
Those: “Focus Online”
