Not only are human beings dubious but so have the animals mastered the cunning acts for self ambitions.
When Maria Boxall found a snake in her luggage following a holiday in Australia, she thought it had been placed there by a member of her family.
However her Scottish grandmother quickly realised it was not a practical joke – when she touched it, it moved.she reached into her suitcase to unpack and encountered a snake coiled within a shoe, according to her family.
She had inadvertently transported the reptile in her suitcase on a flight from Queensland to Glasgow.
Ms Boxall only discovered it hiding in a shoe – complete with shed skin – as she unpacked at her Stirlingshire home.
The snake was taken outside in the shoe and contained by a relative until Scottish SPCA staff arrived in Bridge of Allan.
It turned out to be a python which is not dangerous.The snake is in quarantine at our animal rescue and rehoming centre in Edinburgh.”
It is thought the snake may be given to a zoo after it passes quarantine.Australian Geographic calls Australia”a paradise for pythons,” home to more than a dozen species.