Brazilian city invaded by snakes wrote:RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil: Snakes are increasingly invading the eastern Amazon's largest city.
The agency, known as Ibama, has been called out to capture 21 snakes this year in Belem, a sprawling metropolis of 1.5 million people at the mouth of the Amazon River, Ibama press officer Luciana Almeida said by telephone.
In normal years, Ibama gets no more than one or two calls a month, she said.
No poisonous snakes were reported, she said. But the captured snakes included a 10-foot (3-meter) anaconda, usually a jungle recluse.
"People are scared," she said. "Imagine finding a 3-meter snake in your plumbing."
Ibama has a veterinary team that captures the snakes and takes them to a zoo or to an outlying park to release them, Almeida said.
Might be nothing, might be something.
