'Hitch-hiking' python found in Auckland factory

'Hitch-hiking' python found in Auckland factory

By Susan Edmunds of RNZ A live python found in an Auckland industrial estate earlier this month was likely a “lone hitch-hiker”, Biosecurity New Zealand has...

'Hitch-hiking' python found in Auckland

By Susan Edmunds of RNZ A live python found in an Auckland industrial estate earlier this month was likely a "lone hitch-hiker", Biosecurity New Zealand says.

Biosecurity New Zealand confirm coastal carpet python found in Auckland factory

It was a "non-venomous female" from Australia, and was humanely euthanised.

Coastal carpet python found in Auckland factory

By Susan Edmunds, of RNZ A live python found in an Auckland industrial estate earlier this month was likely a “lone hitch-hiker”, Biosecurity New Zealand has said. It said it found the coastal carpet python from Australia earlier this month. RNZ understands the snake was two metres long and “well fed”. Wendy McDonald, manger of […] The post Coastal carpet python found in Auckland factory appeared first on Kaniva Tonga News.

Python Captured After Devouring Chicken

SIMUNJAN: A local man got the shock of his life when he discovered an 8.2-foot-long python coiled up in a chicken coop at Kampung Kanchong Jaya today (Dec 19). Fearing for his family’s safety, the 48-year-old quickly alerted the Civil Defence Force (APM) for assistance in capturing the reptile behind his house. APM Simunjan district officer Lt Mohammad Elyas Abdul Rhanie said a three-man team was dispatched to the scene, about 25km away, after r…