Five Meter Boa Halts Construction at Pratumnak

Report by Pattaya One News Team

 

Pol Cpl Pawares Banjong staying away from the business end of the snake...

 

PATTAYA: -- At 3pm, on the afternoon of September 19, work at a construction site in Pratumnak Hill was halted after a 4.5 meter Boa Constrictor was discovered.

 

Workers informed Pol Cpl Pawares Banjong Squad Leader Pattaya Police Station, who was on patrol in the area, and between them they tried to catch the snake.

 

But it resisted and tried to strike.

 

However, in the end workers did manage to subdue the reptile and took it to the Kao Kiew Zoo where it will be cared for.

 

Source: http://pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/231882/five-meter-boa-halts-construction-at-pratumnak/

 

-- © Copyright Pattaya One 2016-09-20

 

 

Great news article provides almost no information and manages to get the snake identification wrong.

 

That is a reticulated python, boas are new world snakes and don't inhabit Asia.

1 hour ago, HooHaa said:

Great news article provides almost no information and manages to get the snake identification wrong.

 

That is a reticulated python, boas are new world snakes and don't inhabit Asia.

 

how  do snakes of that size survive on Pratumnak Hill ? I mean it's hardly a large area and it's surrounded by urban jungle.

3 hours ago, Asiantravel said:

 

how  do snakes of that size survive on Pratumnak Hill ? I mean it's hardly a large area and it's surrounded by urban jungle.

 

I guess the area is short of a few cats and dogs as of late.

3 hours ago, Asiantravel said:

 

how  do snakes of that size survive on Pratumnak Hill ? I mean it's hardly a large area and it's surrounded by urban jungle.

Rats for a start, then any other small animals that it can catch, cats and dogs maybe. Plenty of all of them up there and snakes don't need that much. 

The area in was caught in, just behind the Mui Thai training centre at the top of Pratumnak hill, opposite ti entrance to the temple, was a heavily forested one - until last week Another high rise condo one would think.

6 hours ago, Asiantravel said:

 

how  do snakes of that size survive on Pratumnak Hill ? I mean it's hardly a large area and it's surrounded by urban jungle.

 

but there's lots of dwarfish tourists!

My house is local to this area and my wife was told the land is going to be used for bus parking.

8 hours ago, HooHaa said:

Great news article provides almost no information and manages to get the snake identification wrong.

 

That is a reticulated python, boas are new world snakes and don't inhabit Asia.

 

Accuracy is hardly a priority. Yet another misleading headline as well:

 

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Five Meter Boa

 

when in actual fact is was:

8 hours ago, webfact said:

a 4.5 meter Boa

 

And evidently a different sort of snake.....but I guess no reason to let the truth get in the way of a good headline!

9 hours ago, Asiantravel said:

 

how  do snakes of that size survive on Pratumnak Hill ? I mean it's hardly a large area and it's surrounded by urban jungle.

 

It wouldn't on my income.

This python was caught at a temple in Khorat a few years ago, after the 5.8 m, 200 kg reptile had eaten about 20 cats and dogs. It was also taken to a zoo.

yet more destruction of natural habitat and for what - a parking site for buses !

On 9/20/2016 at 4:26 AM, Asiantravel said:

 

how  do snakes of that size survive on Pratumnak Hill ? I mean it's hardly a large area and it's surrounded by urban jungle.

Rats, plenty of Rats and soi dog puppies

If anyone else has eyes like mine they will have seen many many dead rats on the roads recently around Jomtien.

It used to be dead snakes I saw when out on the bike....but with all the mad construction work the apex predator of these rats has almost been eliminated.

Moving this 'Boa" ( Portuguese colonies call all snakes Cobra !!!) will only increase the rat population.... why the hell can they not leave animals alone.

They are currently emptying Lumpini Park in BKK of all the water monitors.....that the tourists love to see but the locals hold in great suspicion and feel threatened by them.!!!!...pitiful and ignorant... I am starting to run out of derogatory adjectives to describe these people.