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The Chennai Snake Park, officially the Chennai Snake Park Trust, is a not-for-profit non-governmental organization constituted in 1972 by herpetologist Romulus Whitaker and is India's first reptile park. [1] Also known as the Guindy Snake Park, it is located next to the Children's Park in the Guindy National Park campus.
The park is home to the few approved snake venom extraction centres in India, the Irula Snake Catchers' Industrial Cooperative Society, which also conducts venom extraction shows for the public at its snake farm. [61] [62] [63] The cooperative society was officially registered on 19 December 1978, and venom extraction was started on 16 December ...
A painted stork in the park. Guindy Snake Park, formerly the location of Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, is next to the Guindy National Park. The Snake Park gained statutory recognition as a medium zoo from the Central Zoo Authority in 1995. The park is located on an 22 acres (8.9 ha) area of the National Park and includes a children's park and ...
Zoo in Tamil Nadu, India Marine Kingdom Various exhibits at Marine Kingdom 12°54′44″N 80°15′03″E / 12.9123°N 80.2508°E / 12.9123; 80.2508 Date opened 2019 Location Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Land area 7,500 m 2 (81,000 sq ft) No. of species 200 Major exhibits 35 Website vgpmarinekingdom.in Marine Kingdom is an aquarium located along the East Coast Road in Chennai, India ...
Whitaker was the founding director of the Snake Park in Chennai. The park was conceived to rehabilitate the Irula tribe, who are known for their expertise in catching snakes. The tribals were left jobless after the ban of snake trading. Whitaker helped the Irula tribe to get involved in extracting snake venom used for the production of ...
The Guindy Snake Park situated in the National Park has a large collection of snakes and is an important source of antivenom serum. For ex-situ conservation, about 22 acres (8.9 hectares) of the Guindy National Park has been carved out into a park which is known as the Children's Park and play area at the northeast corner of the national park ...
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While in her first year as a zoology student at Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai, [3] she volunteered at the Madras Snake Park probably sometime in 1978. [4] She trained under Romulus Whitaker and started working full-time at the Chennai Snake Park, then known as Madras Snake Park, after her graduation in 1981.