{"id":20829,"date":"2025-04-10T12:41:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T06:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=20829"},"modified":"2025-04-10T12:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T06:56:54","slug":"sydney-on-alert-for-escaped-boa-constrictor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/sydney-on-alert-for-escaped-boa-constrictor\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney on alert for escaped boa constrictor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Whether its pounding surf, man-eating crocodiles, or predatory sharks &#8212; Australians are used to keeping their eyes peeled when they&#8217;re near the water.<\/p>\n<p>Now residents of one coastal neighbourhood in Sydney are also being told to watch out for an escaped exotic snake.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Thursday they had been &#8220;alerted to a sighting of a Boa constrictor&#8221; slithering around the waterside suburb of Sylvania.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please do not approach the animal,&#8221; the Department of Primary Industries for New South Wales (NSW) said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If safe to do so, take a photo and contact us so that we can identify and attempt to capture the snake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Video posted to social media showed the girthy critter slowly worming across a waterside footpath next to a beach.<\/p>\n<p>Native to Central and South America, boa constrictors are one of the world&#8217;s largest species of snake.<\/p>\n<p>They have an average length of around three metres (10 feet), and are named for the way in which they squeeze the life out of their prey.<\/p>\n<p>Many snake lovers covet boa constrictors as exotic pets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The boa constrictor is not native to Australia and is a high risk of establishing populations in a wide range of environments in NSW and across Australia,&#8221; according to the NSW Department of Primary Industries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This snake is bred and kept both legally and illegally for the pet trade around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether its pounding surf, man-eating crocodiles, or predatory sharks &#8212; Australians are used to keeping their eyes peeled when they&#8217;re near the water. Now residents of one coastal neighbourhood in Sydney are also being told to watch out for an escaped exotic snake. Officials said Thursday they had been &#8220;alerted to a sighting of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20831,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20829\/revisions\/20831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}