Snake’s Rare Appearance Atop Mahogany Tree Attracts Plazagoers But Kills For Causing Fear
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-The snake’s rare appearance atop the mahogany tree at the Anatalio Gaviola plaza has attracted curious plazagoers, promenaders and passers by but caused fear among the crowd of onlookers.
The light green and brown spotted snake, which was called Sawa in the vernacular, was noticed by plazagoers at past three in the afternoon. It set the fire of attraction from those who have heard its rare presence at the open place.
As the snake’s remained unmoved from its grip on a tree branch near the Rizal monument, not far from the small stores near the SJC elementary school, more people were coming looking up the mahogany tree.
It’s length of less than 2 meters, with a body size similar to the size of a green-colored bottle of red wine found in grocery stores, has posed a threatening aura of fear to most of them.
As it reached dusk until seven in the evening, some firemen and the police have responded to the call about the snake’s presence that remained atop the tree for about 4 hours already.
When they arrived one of the firemen trained the hose pointing to the snake’s location. His colleague opened the firetruck’s water tank and released a forceful volume of water hitting the creeping creature for several minutes.
However, the pressure and the water’s impact against the snake did not make it move. The more it tightened its firm gripping and the fireman gave up.
Two unidentified men volunteered to c limb up the tree to do something against the snake. But before they could reach the top, they backed out and went down, overwhelmned by their fear of being bitten once they touch the snake. The two groups have decided to move out.
On the other hand, Mayor Maloney Samaco, who sensed that the presence of such snake for long hours at the mahogany tree has brought fear to majority of those who have seen it, has finally decided to call the police and ordered them to shoot it.
SPO3 Basilio L.Hinunangan was chosen by his colleagues to do the shooting. According to a witness, he used a 22.caliber gun and shot it three times hitting on the head. It swirled and loosened it tight hold and dropped to the ground.
Some city dwellers have speculated that the continual rains for weeks have saturated the snake’s hole habitat, where it chose to dwell, with water making it uninhabitable.
They claimed it’s possible that the snake took refuge at the public plaza by climbing up the mahogany tree.
Mating Habit
Nevertheless, BFP’s Arson Investigator Achmad “Joel” Jarabe disclosed that according to the information he gathered in the internet, female snakes after mating with the male snakes of its kind would tend to climb up the tree and stay there until it would be time for them to lay their eggs.
He said that if the snake atop a tree would decide to move or transfer to a nearby tree, it would not go down to the ground.
Instead, it would summoned its full power and energy as it unwind its gripping tail “to jump-fly” towards another tree, he explained.
He further informed that the snake’s style of laying their eggs is like a sea turtle.”After laying its eggs on the ground”, he said, “the snake would cover it with the sand or soil and leave”.
Like a Mother Hen, other kinds of snakes have possessed motherly concerns for their young. They will protect their babies against predators and from human harm.”When their eggs would hatch, the mother snakes would watch for their babies”, he said.
In brgy.Kawayan, Libagon, this province, where my late uncle was residing with his family, a neighbor reported one afternoon that his friend who was gathering firewoods in the bushes was being chased by a red-colored snake when the latter has noticed that the former was approaching her “babies”. Luckily, the mother snake had stopped chasing him when he had gone farther and went back to her brood.
Furthermore, some city folks have confided that for the past three decades this is the very first time that such a snake has taken refuge at the public plaza by climbing up the tree.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
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