Pythons on your porch? Call Myanmar's 'Snake Princess'


Shwe Lei with a snake at the Buddhist monastery in Mingalardon Township in Yangon. - AFP

KYAUTAGA, Myanmar (AFP): At four in the morning outside a Yangon monastery, Shwe Lei and her team were wrestling 30 writhing pythons into old rice sacks and loading them into a van.

It was just another day in the life of Myanmar's premier snake removal squad, prising pythons and cajoling cobras from dangerous entanglements with the human world before returning them to their natural habitat.

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