The Forest Department has rescued a python about 9 feet long from the Hotapara truck stand area of Gazipur Sadar upazila. Local people spotted it crossing the road at about 12:30am after Monday, 28 September. The department said it is a Burmese python weighing 9 kilograms.

Safari park wildlife scout Md Mostafiz Rahman said local resident Abdus Samad Khandaker saw the large snake and alerted the Forest Department. A few people kept the snake in one place until staff, sent on the instructions of wildlife inspector Nigar Sultana, arrived and rescued it.

Md Tarek Rahman, officer in charge and assistant conservator of forests at Gazipur Safari Park, said the python was placed in the park's python enclosure the same night.

The Burmese python is a non-venomous, dark-coloured snake with brown blotches edged in black on its back, he said. In the wild the species usually grows up to 16 feet, about 5 metres.

Burmese pythons range across South and Southeast Asia, including the Indian subcontinent, south-eastern Nepal, western Bhutan, south-eastern Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, living in grassland, wetlands, beels, open land near rivers and forest.

The report is from the Bengali edition of The Daily Observer.

Photo: The Daily Observer

Source: The Daily Observer