The Ho Chi Minh City Forest Protection Department on Wednesday received a 2-meter python weighing about 4kg from a local resident after he caught the reptile inside the trunk of a motorbike parked in a factory in Binh Chanh District.
The man, 42-year-old Pham Trong Vinh, and another person used a screwdriver to open the vehicle's trunk in order to catch the python.
Vinh guessed that the reptile crawled into the factory from a nearby canal or trees outside before becoming trapped in the motorbike.
After receiving the python from Vinh, forest rangers determined that the reptile was a Python bivittatus, which is native to a large area of Southeast Asia and is listed as vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List.
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| A supplied photo shows a forest ranger holding a python caught in the trunk of a motorbike parked in a factory in Binh Chanh District, Ho Chi Minh City. |
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