Boa Constrictor Tries To Slither Into Family Home

Story By: Alex Cope, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Newsflash

Newsflash/Camila Palermo

This is the moment a boa constrictor tries to slither is way into a family’s home as they are trapped inside during coronavirus lockdown.

The startling scene was recorded by engineer Camila Palermo in her home in the Itanhanga area of the city of Rio de Janeiro in the southeastern Brazilian state of the same name.

In the clip, the snake can be seen rising up the glass doors to the house and slithering across the patio as it seemingly tries to get inside.

The clip then shows a rescuer with the constrictor in its hands as he prepares to put it into a plastic bag.

Newsflash/Camila Palermo

Speaking to Newsflash, Palermo said: “I was sitting on the sofa with my boyfriend and my two children. I was the first one to see it, I looked around five times to be sure it was real. It was huge.

“When I saw it I was really nervous, I shouted “a snake!”. I sent my children away from that area. That was my first reaction.

“It already had half its body inside the house. My boyfriend grabbed a chair and pushed it outside the house. We then closed all the windows and glass doors. I called the building’s porter asking for help. Two men came with gloves and a bag and they removed the snake before releasing it back into the forest.”

Newsflash/Camila Palermo

Palermo confirmed to Newsflash that she is working from home in the coronavirus lockdown, but the day the snake appeared was a bank holiday (1st May).

She added to Newsflash: “I’m working from every day. We aren’t leaving the house.”

Boa constrictors hunt by first striking at prey and grabbing it with their teeth before constricting it to death and consuming it whole.