The information on the chrono larysa or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcasts you can also find us at our team w dot com slash science. They spread fear and terror among people though theyd rather hide from them but thats becoming increasingly difficult in the time metropolis of bangkok. The city is booming Natural Habitats for snakes disappearing. From taiwan come is a fine fine so he hasnt put on to any fines for months instead hes out catching snakes everything from home his garden snakes to poisonous find. Has. To. Have that all right well send someone out keep an eye on the snake until we get there. At the. End of this and its on taiwan comes 1st mission on this sunday morning rainy season has begun in thailand and that means snake season has as well. Snake catchers almost always work in pandas because they never know what to expect attempting to catch one of the larger reptiles all alone would be too dangerous one cam and his colleagues set off with 2 vehicles are they would be working in their. Banks maze of streets makes it difficult for some taiwan cam to find the address given by the court. Alone looking for makes 140 this is key to 14 right there where is mr one just a side street. And i. Think its been more than 20 minutes since the call came in and the snow counters have to turn around. After another 5 minutes the firefighters finally arrive at the right place the call is waiting impatiently in front of his house. Armed with their gear the 2 men enter the property the snake has already begun to retreat. Sensing the danger the snake has fled to the roof of an adjacent building. Cause when it comes down to you ok ok bye. Laura whitman reached the snake at that height. By that one. Maybe we could have caught it if we derived earlier. In the address was unclear so unfortunately it took a little longer. Walks and now. They return to the station even if it didnt work out this morning so entire 1 pm has already called dozens of snakes you cant exactly say how many he also doesnt know how many are in the cages stacked up behind the station and thats the result of less than 2 weeks work. When he began training to become a firefighter one can never imagine what hed end up doing. Who are getting the fact that id also have to catch snakes made me nervous. But i learned a lot very quickly like which snakes are causing this and which arent i realize that theyre not that scary. The next call comes in the woman on the phone is unable to give accurate details about the snake unfortunately this is not unusual explains the head of the fire station. It would help us if the callers could describe the snake tell us what it looked. Like even better what kind of snake it is. Most of them are obviously in panic thinking only theres a snake a snake in my house. It doesnt take some time and his colleague has long to find the right address this time. The lady of the house is relieved that helpers arrived. First we have to find out exactly where the snake is hiding. We have to see it with our own eyes so that we know whether its poisonous or not the housekeeper says she saw the snake here between these flower pots. Describe the snake what color is a. Ball when i went into the garden along the side of the house suddenly the snake snapped at me. Luckily it missed my foot but only by a few centimeters so. Some taiwan chum knows that snakes like to look for drying sparse like this one especially during rainy season anyone who needs junk in the garden shouldnt be surprised if they suddenly find an unwanted gassed. The firefighters take everything apart bit by bit the snake could be looking anywhere. It. Has head under a sign after a brief discussion the men make their move. Ok yeah. But youre the one that. I did it. But. This is the socalled rat snake its about a metre line. It may not be poisonous should be handled with care. If it does bite you should always have the untreated type that has a very sharp. Rat snakes are especially agile and quite aggressive the firefighters have to use the extreme can not to get better and. Hopefully good that tina every catch is different but that this one was fairly easy we knew whereabouts where the snake was hiding it also wasnt very big and a lot of the time we have to deal with pythons you know thats a different caliber altogether for those we sometimes call in reinforcements to firefighters arent enough. But i like them to. Get out to many people. Before they get back to the station the next emergency call comes in an uninvited visitor in the bedroom they better hurry. When they want to its important to know the city shortcuts so you dont waste too much time in traffic jams we have to hurry all the time because theres always somebody waiting for help somewhere. Where do they see the snake. Not a snake a monitor lizard. Ok so this time were not catching a snake but a giant lizard lets go monitor lizards can grow up to 3 metres long they like to break into hen houses in catch young birds or eggs but the specimen hiding in the bedroom isnt that big apparently at least thats what the inhabitants of the house said. Lets go have a look. Back. Ok we could appear. Maybe under the sofa. Already looked up there on the carpet. And i look behind the air conditioner. We have weve looked everywhere here no success unfortunately. This. One for one. But. We cannot find any. After returning to the fire station so lets the rat snake out of the back but the new home isnt much better. The cage hasnt been emptied for 14 days out in the wild most snakes can go without food for weeks so they arent fed here every once in a while the Nature Conservation agency picks the snake xampp and sets them free in national parks. A few of the poisonous snakes are brought to this place bangkoks snake farm its home to about 50 different species the farm is very popular. Locals as well as tourists one reason for that is the daily snake handling demonstration. My. Research on and serums to save lions for example is also conducted here at the snake farm. Tries to reassure us if you behave properly snakes are harmless he says theyre also useful in keeping down the mouse or rat populations or other pests. But i thought i would like to make sure people are aware of the following its completely normal to see snakes during the rainy season theyre very afraid of us humans if you dont want snakes in your garden or house you just have to make sure you dont offer the snakes any place to hide. 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Hello and welcome to another edition of eco africa where we highlight environmental topics on ideas from europe and africa from founder to nobody on this week well be looking out the many ways you can recycle plastic west im in kampala uganda and dorrys im cohosting we have my colleague neal to exit in nigeria