\n New footage that emerged the previous day showed the snake slithering on a mountain in Wales, and hiker Lorraine Flower spotted the large adder while out walking on the Blorenge mountain in Monmouthshire.\n<\/p>\n
\n Just two days prior, South Wales Police reported an increase in Adder sightings and advised dog walkers to keep their pets on a lead.\n<\/p>\n
\n The snake had startled beachgoers in Anglesey the previous month, with hiker Lewis Perrin Williams describing how an adder fell onto the rocks and began swimming at Porth Wen near Llanbadrig.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI was just standing on the beach when I saw it fall down from the undergrowth overhanging a small cliff,\u201d Lewis Perrin Williams said.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Wildlife Trusts warned that while an adder bite can be painful and cause inflammation, it is generally only dangerous to the very young, ill, or old, and medical attention should be sought immediately if bitten.\n<\/p>\n
\n Adders are the UK’s only venomous snakes and prefer to avoid confrontation, generally only attacking when stepped on or picked up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New footage that emerged the previous day showed the snake slithering on a mountain in Wales, and hiker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-590626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}