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Better than an empty apartment in Dormagen: the real home of the Madagascar boas
Photo: BAZ RATNER / REUTERS
The fire brigade in Düsseldorf received an unusual emergency call on Monday evening: employees of the public order office had discovered two strangler lines in an empty apartment in Dormagen.
Two firefighters arrived - one of them a reptile specialist.
The snakes could be caught with animal hooks, as the fire brigade in Düsseldorf announced.
They were given to a zoo in Brüggen, their new home.
The owner had left the snakes in the apartment.
The animals that the reptile expert identified as Madagascar boas are around one meter long.
This makes them non-toxic, but they can exert very great forces when choking, as the fire brigade announced.
The Düsseldorf fire brigade says it is the only fire brigade in Germany to have a reptile specialist group: Six reptile specialists give advice over the phone and take care of operations with snakes and other reptiles on site.
Last year they had 45 assignments in and around Düsseldorf.
ani / dpa