A grocery store New Hampshire discovered a snake — native to Ecuador — in a shipment of bananas.
A snake — which belongs to a species that isn’t native to the United States — was found in a banana shipment athow the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department received a call on Saturday from a Market Basket in Manchester — a city located in the southern part of the state — alerting them that something strange had shown up in the fruit.
The Fish and Game Department confirmed that the snake was successfully extracted — and unharmed — from the bananas. It has since been relocated to Rainforest Reptiles Shows Inc. “In New Hampshire, any venomous snake aside from the hog-nosed snake is illegal to posses,” conservation officer, Griffion McKeown said to WMUR. “We’ve had a few calls about pet surrenders of ball pythons and stuff like that, but never, never a venomous snake.If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation.
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