Their team – called Shwe Metta, or 'Golden Love' in Burmese – has around a dozen members and rescued around 200 snakes last year from around Yangon.
It was just another day in the life of Myanmar's premier snake removal squad, prising pythons and cajoling cobras from dangerous entanglements with the human world before returning them to their natural habitat.
Social media videos of the pair pulling snakes out of sink plugholes and extricating them from roof eaves have earned them the moniker"prince and princess of snakes" from local media. More than 15,000 people were bitten by snakes in Myanmar in 2014, according to the latest available figures from the World Health Organization.
Recognising exactly which kind of stink is another skill a snake-catcher must hone, according to Ko Toe Aung.
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