Artificially incubated cobra eggs hatch - India Press Item

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: TIMES OF INDIA (New Delhi) 31 May 00 Artificially incubated cobra eggs hatch : Bangalore: Md Anees, the city's well-known snake catcher, has managed to help cobras breed in his house for the first time ever in Karnataka. : The tiny wheat coloured cobras about a feet long coiled inside the eggs slither out laboriously. They look meek and helpless but within a couple of hours after their birth they charge at any intruder hissing noisily, hood open. : Anees points out that they can bite and with fatal results too. Their fangs are developed and they can inject venom lethally. : The 17 snake eggs were collected at NTI Layout, Vidyaranyapura after he caught the mother, on April 30. The mother was a large 5-feet-long ferocious reptile who has since been released in the wild in Bannerghatta National Park. : The snakes were artificially incubated in an indigenously designed glass enclosure where the temperature was kept at a constant of 30 degrees and the relative humidity was preserved at 90. : The little snakes will not eat anything immediately but within a week's time they will feed on new born mice. Once they grow up they'll feed on larger field mice, frogs, toads. : They will be released into the wild after a period of two weeks at either Bannerghatta or Savandurga with the permission of the wildlife authorities. : TIMES OF INDIA (New Delhi) 14 June 00 Snake claims one : Ahmedabad: Gulab Padvi of Velgha village in Nizar taluka in eastern Surat district succumbed to a snake bite on Saturday evening. Gulab had gone to the river for a bath where he was bitten by a snake. : http://www.timesofindia.com/140600/14mahm16.htm : TIMES OF INDIA (New Delhi) 15 June 00 Dies of snake bite : Bangalore : Jalappa (62) of Badami taluk was killed when he was bitten by a snake on Monday. The police said Jalappa had gone to his fields when he was bitten by a snake. He was rushed to the primary health centre where he died. : http://www.timesofindia.com/150600/15mban7.htm

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