- An 11-foot-long python was found curled up on a car engine in northern China
- Forestry police brought along a snake expert upon receiving report from a driver
- Officers covered the serpent’s head with mops and dragged it off the car slowly
Police has caught a giant python hiding under a car bonnet and had it removed from the vehicle in Inner Mongolia, northern China.
Ms Jin first spotted an 11-foot-long serpent resting at the front wheel of her car and later slithering up to the engines.
A reptile expert was called to the scene, he captured the snake using a mop and a wooden rod and put it in a bucket.
A python is spotted hiding under Ms Jin’s car bonnet outside a hotel in north China
Policemen and a reptile expert carefully drag the snake out while covering its head by a mop
The 3.4-metre-long (11.2-foot-long) python was seeking shelter under a car that parked outside Badain Jaran Hotel in Alxa League on June 11, according to local reports.
The terrified Ms Jin called Helanshan Forestry Police soon as she noticed the snake hiding at the wheels when she was about to get in the car.
Forestry officers brought along an expert at around 4:55pm and found the snake had already slithered into Ms Jin’s car.
Mobile phone footage taken by onlookers shows the giant snake curls up at the right corner under the bonnet.
The officers warned the public not to go close to the car as they tried to remove the non-venomous snake from the car.
They can be seen carefully covering the snake’s head and pulling its tail off the car.
The python was placed in a bucket, however it’s not sure where it would be placed.
Onlookers watch as the officers struggling to put the protected species in a bucket
The snake is identified as a reticulated python with diamond-like pattern on its body (left). The snake is not harmed and will be kept by the forestry police in the mean time (right)
The officers said to investigate how did the reptile appeared in north China as python usually distributed in hotter environment, most likely in the southeast.
Expert confirmed the snake as reticulated pythons with a repeated pattern of ‘X’ on its body.
According to China’s list of endangered species, pythons are considered as grade one protected species in the country.
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