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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 Parassinkkadavu Snake Park is located in Anthoor Municipality about 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) from Kannur Corporation in the Kannur district of north Kerala, in south India. The Snake Park is in Parassinikkadavu, which is 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from National Highway (NH) 17, en route from Kannur to Taliparamba.
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 ...
For a list of aquaria, see List of aquaria in India. Zoos are primarily dry facilities where animals are confined within enclosures and displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred. Such facilities include zoos, safari parks , animal theme parks , aviaries , butterfly zoos , and reptile centres , as well as wildlife sanctuaries ...
The Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park, commonly known as the Rajiv Gandhi Zoo or Katraj Zoo, [3] is located in Katraj, Pune district, Maharashtra State, India. It is managed by the Pune Municipal Corporation. The 130-acre (53 ha) zoo is divided into three parts: an animal orphanage, a snake park and a zoo and includes the 42-acre (17 ha) Katraj Lake.
A ancient giant snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton, researchers reported Thursday. The newly discovered behemoth lived 47 million years ago in western India ...
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 panoramic view of Panandhro Lignite Mine, in western India's Gujarat state, shows the fossiliferous level (red arrow) where the giant snake Vasuki indicus was found. - S. Bajpai/D. Datta/P. Verma