A rare python has been found in an injured condition in a pool of water near forest in Rautahat recently.
The python weighing around 8.5 kg is seven feet long and 8 ftlong. Preparation was underway to keep it in a community forest after building an enclosure, it is learnt.Nepal has a rich but understudied snake fauna. Different authors list up to 90 snake species from Nepal, including up to 22 venomous ones (Shrestha 2001; Schleich and Kästle 2002; Shah and Tiwari 2004). These are broadly distributed in the lowlands (70 m elevation), in some valleys in the middle hills with a tropical climate, and in th e Himalayan regions (up to more than 4,800 m). Venomous snakes have been found at altitudes as high as 3,200 m in Nepal (Shah 1995; Shah et al. 2003).
