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The video shows the mother snake coiled around her eggs while partially buried in the pile.
Gilding says in the video that mother snakes like piles of palms and debris because it supplies warmth and humidity for the eggs.
"I started slowly peeling apart the pile (which was due to go to the dump the very next day) and sure enough we found her tightly coiled around her eggs," Gilding wrote in the video's description. "After gently removing her from her eggs she was safely released into some nearby rain forest. Her eggs were placed in an incubator."