By Mindy
Weisberger, Senior Writer | August 29, 2018 03:17pm ET
For
nearly two months, a slippery fugitive has evaded capture in the Polish
countryside. Nicknamed Bertha, she followed a serpentine path to escape her
seekers' best efforts.
You might
say that she slithered right through her would-be captors' hands.
Bertha is
a rogue Indian python (Python molurus molurus), though few of those looking for
her have actually seen her. Animal Rescue Poland (ARP) received reports on July
7 of shed snakeskin found near the Vistula River south of Warsaw that measured
nearly 7 feet (2 meters). When ARP investigated the high grass closer to the
river, they found a second piece of molted
skin measuring about 16 feet (5 m), suggesting that the snake could be
as long as 20 feet (6 m) from nose to tail tip, according to an ARP blog
post. [Photos:
Giant Pythons Invade Everglades]
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