1.7-meter-long python captured at Ho Chi Minh City apartment building
Sunday, November 26, 2023, 11:21 GMT+7
The management board and residents at an apartment building in Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday caught a 1.7-meter-long python in the parking area of the property and handed it over to the city's wildlife rescue center the next day, head of the board told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Saturday.
Nguyen Tan Vu, head of the management board of My Phuoc Apartment Building, said residents found the python weighing 4.8 kilograms in the parking area of Block C of the development.
The building management board and residents caught it and put the reptile in a temporary cage.
Where the python came from remained unknown, Vu said.
The management board asked the residents if there was the owner of the python among them. However, no one received the snake after one day.
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| The python is handed over to the wildlife rescue center under the Ho Chi Minh City Forest Protection Department for further care. Photo: Ngoc Khai / Tuoi Tre |
As a result, Vu contacted the wildlife rescue center under the Ho Chi Minh City Forest Protection Department to hand over the python.
The center received the reptile on Thursday evening for further care.
Rangers determined that the snake is a Python bivittatus, which is among the wild animals of Group IIB in the list of rare and endangered forest species, as per Vietnamese law.
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