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Photo: Toni Harrisson – Facebook Snake hunters saved a snake covered with python and covered with hundreds of ticks, about 500, reported the BBC. The reptile, who was supposed to be sick, was in a pool of a house in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
The professional who took him took the snake to a wildlife treatment center. Veterinarians have removed more than 500 ticks, according to sniper hunter Tony Harrison at the BBC, and the snake is doing well.
Ticks are arthropods that attach to hosts – humans or animals – to feed on their blood. "
" Obviously, the snake was extremely uncomfortable, he said.
"It's no wonder that the snake, called Nike, is trying to drown the ticks in the pool, the whole face was swollen and the snake was completely stunned by the ticks stuck in it."
said that removing ticks from the snake looked like "holding a bag of marigold" moving under his hands.
Cobra had 500 ticks. by the body. (Photo: Toni Harrisson)
Professor Bryan Fry of the University of Queensland sometimes attacks snakes, particularly because of the presence of ticks and other pests.
The snake was probably sick, says Fry, probably because of heat stress or drought stress.
"It is clearly a critically ill animal that its natural defenses are so slaughtered," he says. who would have survived had not been removed and treated. "
Later, Harrison stated that Nike was suffering from an infection, but it was already better.
" Nike is more energetic today, "Harrison said in a shared video on the page of the Gold Coast and Brisbane snake hunters
"But he will be a long-time patient in the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary until he is well enough to to be released. "
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