From cobras to monitor lizards, several reptiles have been rescued at various places in the national capital in the last one week, a wildlife NGO today said.
A monitor lizard that was spotted inside a company warehouse in Sarita Vihar was rescued on the weekend, the Wildlife SOS said.
Another case was tackled by its team, when a four-foot-long cobra was found outside an officer's mess in the Delhi Cantonment area.
Around the same time, another cobra had got itself stuck in a crevice in the wall outside the staff quarters of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), it said.
On Monday morning, workers at a metro construction site at Nizamuddin had found a nearly six-foot-long rat snake. The DMRC authorities called the Wildlife SOS team to rescue the reptile, it said in a statement.
In a further case of animal in distress, a wolf snake was spotted inside the examination control room of Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya, Vasant Kunj, which later sought refuge under a cupboard.
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"As the rains bring much needed respite from the gruelling heat, it also sometimes displaces snakes out of their hiding places and forces them to seek shelter elsewhere," co-founder and CEO of Wildlife SOS, Kartick Satyanarayan, said.
The latest case was that of a six-foot-long rat snake that was rescued at the CSIR's Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Sukhdev Vihar, Mathura Road.
The snake was found inside the guard's room and was suspected to have wandered out of the forested area located in the vicinity, it said.