Fear to Roma for the finding of a snake in the elevator shaft of a building. The expert intervened to capture him Andrea Lunertiwho often works on film and television sets in the management of animals.
Snake in elevator shaft in Rome
Last week residents of an apartment building Roma They reported the presence of a snake that was climbing inside the elevator shaft of the building, slithering along the railing that separates it from the stairs.
It was a reptile just over a metre long, with a light belly and the upper part of its body almost completely black, which scared the tenants who feared it could be an animal dangerous to humans.
A snake of the same species as the one captured
To capture the animal, the expert intervened in the building in Piazza Bologna Andrea Lunertiwho often works in animal management on film and television sets in the capital.
Video of the snake capture
Lunerti has shared the video of the capture on his social media profiles snake, which occurred on the evening of July 10th in the building in Piazza Bologna in Rome, following a request for intervention by some condominium members.
You can see it in the pictures Mondays with some difficulty grasp the rear end of the snake, then extricate it from the elevator shaft railing in which it had coiled itself in an attempt to escape capture.
Once completely extracted, the reptile curled up in Lunerti’s hands and also attempted to bite it, taking one of the man’s fingers between his teeth, who however suffered no consequences.
What kind of snake is Hierophis viridiflavus?
As Lunerti himself writes in the Facebook post that accompanies the video of the capture of the snake, in fact, the reptile was a Hierophis viridiflavus, commonly called grass snake, which is not poisonous to humans.
This is a widespread species of snake in Italy, in France and in the Pyrenees, as well as in the northern part of the Adriatic coast of Balkans. It feeds mainly on other reptiles, bird eggs and small mammals and is not dangerous to humans, although it is poisonous.
It usually lives in the countryside areas and it is not easily found in large population centers, which it prefers to avoid due to the risk of being killed by being hit by vehicles, a circumstance that happens frequently even in its natural habitat.
Photo source: ANSA
Source: notizie.virgilio.it
