A four-metre female reticulated python — weighing about 100 kilograms — was caught in an oil palm plantation in Teluk Intan, Perak today.
Ninety eggs were discovered with it inside its nest when members of the Civil Defence Department (JPAM) attempted to capture it, the New Straits Times reports.
According to the report, the python had reacted aggressively.
“It took them 20 minutes to capture the snake, which was fiercely protecting its eggs inside its nest,” Hilir Perak JPAM officer Mohd Fazly Mohamad Zawawi was quoted as saying.
He said JPAM personnel used snake tongs and a hook as tools to capture the snake, which had made its home beneath a palm tree.
The snake and its eggs were sent to the JPAM office in Padang Terap.
We hope it’s okay there, considering what happened to the ‘world’s longest snake’ found last month, which sadly died just days after its capture.
