By Cathy Elelman • Published: 13 Jun 2020 • 20:19
A SNAKE had a lucky escape after slithering up into the engine of a car parked up in Cartaya in the Andalucia province of Huelva.
Un polizón escurridizo (culebra bastarda) se subió al motor de un vehículo a través de una de las aletas instantes antes de que el propietario iniciara la marcha. El #SEPRONA de la @guardiacivil de Huelva la sacó tras desmontar un protector y la restableció a su habitad. pic.twitter.com/qYZdVRRT0C — Guardia Civil (@guardiacivil) June 12, 2020
Un polizón escurridizo (culebra bastarda) se subió al motor de un vehículo a través de una de las aletas instantes antes de que el propietario iniciara la marcha.
El #SEPRONA de la @guardiacivil de Huelva la sacó tras desmontar un protector y la restableció a su habitad. pic.twitter.com/qYZdVRRT0C
— Guardia Civil (@guardiacivil) June 12, 2020
The driver was just about to start the ignition of the company vehicle when he spotted the metre and a half long serpent go up inside one of the front wings.
Officers from the Guardia Civil’s SEPRONA nature protection service searched the car for the snake and managed to extract it from the nook in the engine where it had settled itself.
They returned it unharmed to its natural habitat on the bank of a nearby river.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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