The Evening Standard has reported that a species of snake whose London population is on the increase is under threat of being culled.
The Aesculupian snakes were released into the Regent's Canal are in the 1990s as part of a scientific experiment. However, an increasing number of them have been seen on rooftops and in trees in recent months.
The species is capable of crushing children to death, and it is thought their presence is having an impact on the natural ecosystem of the area - they have been spotted eating rats and birds.
What do you think? Should these snakes be culled? Or is it wrong to cull a species that would not have been released into this habitat in the first place, were it not for human intervention?
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