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Rob Wild, a British expatriate who lives in South Africa's Western Cape province, said he and his family were admiring their newly-decorated artificial Christmas tree when they spotted a 4-foot-long boomslang, one of the more venomous snakes in Africa, hiding among the ornaments and called in a snake catcher to take it away.