Police officers take an in depth have a look at a habu snake in Amami, Kagoshima Prefecture.
15:30 JST, April 20, 2024
AMAMI, Kagoshima — New law enforcement officials assigned to the Amami Police Station in Kagoshima Prefecture took half in a coaching session to learn to take care of venomous habu snakes. The snake inhabits 5 of the Amami Islands, together with Amami-Oshima, Tokunoshima and Kakeromajima islands.
Last yr, 37 individuals had been bitten by snakes, inflicting accidents. In response to requests to seize the snakes, the Amami Police Department dispatched officers a complete of 20 occasions.
A coaching session was performed with 29 officers at a vacationer heart in Amami on April 1. Eiryu Motoyama of the middle defined habu snake biology and catch them.
Motoyama instructed the officers, “habu are often observed on nights with a light rain, where the temperature is between 22 and 26 C” and “if you hit them on the head with a stick, they will get a concussion. But stay alert even after they stop moving because they may suddenly attack.”
Following the data session, the officers had been instructed on seize and repel the snakes with an illustration that included a stay snake.
“I would like to calmly respond to requests to capture snakes,” mentioned officer Rika Usukubo, 19, who joined the coaching session on repel a habu with a bamboo stick.
