20Kg Python Captured Up a Tree in Central Phnom Penh

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:37 pm

Cambodia News(Phnom Penh): On December 3, 2020, at 9 am, a 20kg python was found in a tree on street 360, Sangkat Toul Svay Prey 1, Khan Beung Kengkong, Phnom Penh.

Before the incident, the local people saw a huge python, weighing about 20kg, on a tree in the street, so they contacted the police and the conservation authorities to hand over the python, which was then sent to Phnom Tamao Nature Reserve.

IraHayes · Post by **IraHayes** » Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:41 pm

I'm sorry but thats a fair sized snake... and last time I checked they weren't the fastest of movers.

So... we have a large slow snake and it managed to get to BKK1 un-noticed?
How would that be possible? Or is the location closer to the edge of PP than I realise?

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Fri Dec 04, 2020 1:03 am

IraHayes wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:41 pm I'm sorry but thats a fair sized snake... and last time I checked they weren't the fastest of movers.

So... we have a large slow snake and it managed to get to BKK1 un-noticed?
How would that be possible? Or is the location closer to the edge of PP than I realise?

It was street 360 and they said Tuol Svay Prey so it must be the west part. There's a big overgrown empty lot nearby that's been overgrown for years. I'd guess it grew up in the area rather than came from anywhere out in the sticks but it could have come via the underground former river (now sewer) not so far away. That stretch between Wat Moha Motrei and the Chinese embassy was a grassy vale with a brook running through it up till about 30 years ago.

SternAAlbifrons · Post by **SternAAlbifrons** » Fri Dec 04, 2020 2:39 am

All these pythons suddenly being photographed wrapped around Phnom Penhian's necks.
It's just one of those Khmer "i gotta be in it too" fashion trends that sweep the country periodically.
it won't last long before the traditional Khmer turtle necks return as the fashionable cold winter day favourite.

crob · Post by **crob** » Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:07 am

IraHayes wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:41 pm I'm sorry but thats a fair sized snake... and last time I checked they weren't the fastest of movers.

So... we have a large slow snake and it managed to get to BKK1 un-noticed?
How would that be possible? Or is the location closer to the edge of PP than I realise?

maybe the drainage system... though it being PP, that doesn't sound like a stretch

SternAAlbifrons · Post by **SternAAlbifrons** » Fri Dec 04, 2020 5:10 am

'Anybody lost the dog? recently
It appears to have that tell-tale bulge in his upper digestive pipeline.

xandreu · Post by **xandreu** » Fri Dec 04, 2020 7:47 am

Anyone know what's likely to happen to it? I know you can't have great big pythons roaming around like they own the place but it's not their fault we've left them with nowhere to live. I'd like to think they're driven to the middle of nowhere and set free to live out their natural lives but somehow I doubt it....

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Fri Dec 04, 2020 8:16 am

xandreu wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 7:47 am Anyone know what's likely to happen to it? I know you can't have great big pythons roaming around like they own the place but it's not their fault we've left them with nowhere to live. I'd like to think they're driven to the middle of nowhere and set free to live out their natural lives but somehow I doubt it....

.....which was then sent to Phnom Tamao Nature Reserve.

IraHayes · Post by **IraHayes** » Fri Dec 04, 2020 10:40 am

John Bingham wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 1:03 am
IraHayes wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:41 pm I'm sorry but thats a fair sized snake... and last time I checked they weren't the fastest of movers.

So... we have a large slow snake and it managed to get to BKK1 un-noticed?
How would that be possible? Or is the location closer to the edge of PP than I realise?
It was street 360 and they said Tuol Svay Prey so it must be the west part. There's a big overgrown empty lot nearby that's been overgrown for years. I'd guess it grew up in the area rather than came from anywhere out in the sticks but it could have come via the underground former river (now sewer) not so far away. That stretch between Wat Moha Motrei and the Chinese embassy was a grassy vale with a brook running through it up till about 30 years ago.

THanks for the insight, It would seem I was way off on where I thought it had been captured lol.

It could easily have been living there for quite some time living off the rats and cats etc

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