Officials recover 6-foot-long snake on Hawaii Island

[TexasTowelie]

HAWAII ISLAND (HawaiiNewsNow) - On the Big Island, Animal Control Officers recovered a six-foot-long snake in Keaau.

Department of Agriculture officials said they took the snake into custody on Sunday.

According to a report by the Hawaii Tribune-Herald, the snake was found at a Keaau home over the weekend.

The Herald also reports that the snake was a boa constrictor, though state officials were not able to provide many details.

Read more: http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2018/10/31/officials-recover-foot-long-snake-hawaii-island/

[hlthe2b]

1. Shit... I hope they find it to have been a single smuggled pet and not

heralding a developing population.

I've seen what happened to Guam with the brown tree snake and how hard Hawaii tries to keep planes and ships from bringing in "stowaways"... Snake introduction would just be devastating.

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2. Are there no snakes in Hawaii?

[samnsara]

3. i had always heard no

[hlthe2b]

4. NO... and they have been fighting for many decades to keep it that way

To be absolutely accurate, in case we have a resident herpetologist, there are no native snakes on Hawaiian Islands. There is, however, a tiny earthworm- like snake (the Hawaiian Blind snake) that originated from the Philippines and is among the world's tiniest snakes. It feeds on termites and ants, is nonvenomous and thus really more earthworm than snake at only six inches or so)..

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5. Wow! Thanks for the info. I had no idea.