Snake catcher follows carpet python to surprising discovery -- eggs
Published in Weird News
BUDERIM, Australia (UPI) -- An Australian snake catcher called to remove a carpet python from a resident's yard made an even more exciting discovery -- the snake's nest and eggs.
Lockie Gilding of Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 said in a video posted to Facebook that he was called to a Buderim home Dec. 2 to remove a carpet python that had been seen sunning itself in the yard on multiple occasions before disappearing in a garden mulch pile.
The video shows the mother snake coiled around her eggs while partially buried in the pile.
Gilding says in the video that mother snakes like piles of palms and debris because it supplies warmth and humidity for the eggs.
"I started slowly peeling apart the pile (which was due to go to the dump the very next day) and sure enough we found her tightly coiled around her eggs," Gilding wrote in the video's description. After gently removing her from her eggs she was safely released into some nearby rain forest. Her eggs were placed in an incubator.
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