Eight-foot python rescued from Mayurbhanj canal

Local snake helpline workers came to the scene and retrieved the python and then released it into the wild

by Asia Times staff September 7, 2018February 18, 2020

A python similar to the one that was rescued. Photo: iStock.

An eight-foot python was rescued from a canal in India on Wednesday with it’s rescue captured on video. The rescue happened in Mayurbhanj, Odisha.

Odisha TV reported that locals dialed the reptile helpline after noticing the snake coming from a canal at Khuntapal on Sept. 5. People from the helpline retrieved the python and set it free in the Similpal forest.

The helpline previously saved a nine-foot python in Puri, Odisha, on Aug. 9. The snake was injured and brought to the Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology for treatment before being released in the wild.

Pythons are non-venomous and mostly docile.

One reply on “Eight-foot python rescued from Mayurbhanj canal”

Hariharan Ramamurthy says:

September 11, 2018 at 8:12 PM

people need to check their emthusiasm for they Pythons. first they need to check whether they are the local fauna or exotic pets from Burma.
read about the havoc the Burmeses pythons are doing to the small mammal population in Florida evwerglades

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