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WESSEX NEWS AGENCY Jim Hardy email [email protected] mobile 07501 221880 PIC FOR STORY SENT TO NEWS DESK COPY CATCHLINE: SNAKES Hiss-teria! A huge, fearsome jungle snake with a body as thick as a man's thigh has been found by shocked staff on a wildlife centre's doorstep. The discovery of the 8ft long boa constrictor near Salisbury, Wilts, yesterday comes after soldiers training fifty miles away in Farnborough, Hants, found a 6ft long anaconda earlier this week. It increases fears among nature lovers that people are buying monster snakes from the tropical rainforests as pets and are dumping them because they can't cope with them. Abandoning the serpents in the countryside at this time of year is likely to be a sentence of death unless they are quickly found. They need 'jungle heat' conditions to survive and will die if exposed to the elements in Britain now the cold autumn nights are here. The latest discovery was made by volunteers at the Wiltshire Wildlife Hospital in Newton Tony, near Salisbury, yesterday. Pic shows boa found outside Wiltshire Wildlife Hospital