Pune: An injured Indian Rock Python lying on the taxiway took the Lohegaon airport authorities by surprise on Sunday night.
Some airport officials spotted the snake, measuring 7ft-and-3 inches, around 9.30pm. The protected schedule-1 species under the Indian Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, was barely moving. It is not known how the snake landed near the taxiway and the reasons for its injuries.
"When the snake was spotted, we thought it was dead. It was bleeding and not moving at all. But when it was placed in a bucket, it moved a bit. Officials were shocked when they realized it was a python. We contacted Girish Chaure, a snake expert, and handed over the reptile to him," an airport official told TOI.
Girish said that when the snake was handed over to him around 10pm, he also thought it was dead. "I have been rescuing snakes for the past nine years and can identify almost all the species. So, I immediately knew that it was an Indian Rock Python.We tried to contact many doctors, including the authorities of the snake park at Katraj, but could not get in touch with them," he said.
07/02/17 Joy Sengupta/Times of India
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Some airport officials spotted the snake, measuring 7ft-and-3 inches, around 9.30pm. The protected schedule-1 species under the Indian Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, was barely moving. It is not known how the snake landed near the taxiway and the reasons for its injuries.
"When the snake was spotted, we thought it was dead. It was bleeding and not moving at all. But when it was placed in a bucket, it moved a bit. Officials were shocked when they realized it was a python. We contacted Girish Chaure, a snake expert, and handed over the reptile to him," an airport official told TOI.
Girish said that when the snake was handed over to him around 10pm, he also thought it was dead. "I have been rescuing snakes for the past nine years and can identify almost all the species. So, I immediately knew that it was an Indian Rock Python.We tried to contact many doctors, including the authorities of the snake park at Katraj, but could not get in touch with them," he said.
07/02/17 Joy Sengupta/Times of India
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