One day I was hanging out at the Rizal Re-Creation Center when a friend came up to me.

“They killed a snake over by the swimming pool. You should have been there. Maybe you would have been able to stop it.”

It turned out that while some workers were trimming branches from trees, they had come across a large green snake in the tree. Reacting with the fear and aggression that many people show when they see snakes, the worker rushed away to get a machete, and then came back to cut the snake to pieces.

My friend took a photo of what was once a beautiful Red-tailed Green Ratsnake (sometimes called a Red-tailed Racer).