Snake on a plane hitches a ride to New Zealand, which has ** snakes
 

Snake on a plane hitches a ride to New Zealand, which has ** snakes
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Despite the close distance to Australia, there are ** snakes in New Zealand, bar the occasional sea snake.

So you can imagine the surprise when biosecurity officials at Auckland Airport found a live snake on a plane that arrived from Australia on Sunday.*

It was quickly captured by authorities, who used a bucket to contain the reptile.

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"It appears the snake had crawled into the wheel housing of a private jet that arrived from Brisbane," Craig Hughes from New Zealand's Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) said in a statement.* Read more...

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