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Dr Ravindranath Aytahl artificially hatches 30 more Cobras

June 30, 2012

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Puttur, June 30: Well-known herpetologist Dr Ravindranath Aytahl, who is kwon for rescuing snakes and treating the victims of snake-bites in Puttur, has added a new feather on his cap by artificially hatching 30 Cobra eggs.

Dr Aythal already has the credit of breeding over 5,000 snakes using artificial incubation in the last 30 years.

Nearly two-and-a-half month ago Dr Aithal was given 18 eggs of a Cobra by a person from Mulky, in whose land the Cobra had died during land leveling. A few days later, 12 more eggs were brought to his clinic by a Mangalore based person.

All the 30 eggs were artificially hatched under Dr Aithal's supervision in 'Sheshavana Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre (SWRRC).

However, he has decided to leave all the baby Cobras in Bisile Ghat on Sunday.

Dr Aithal said that the eggs were hatched using artificial incubation by stuffing fresh mud in the clay pots. “It took 72 days for the first set of 18 eggs to hatch ant it took 40 days for the 12 eggs to hatch.

He said that over 100 eggs can be hatched at a time using the same method.

Dr Aithal has so far succeeded in artificially hatching 84 eggs of King Cobra, 986 eggs of Cobra, 1057 eggs of python and 1110 eggs of rat-snakes along with some other varieties.

The snakes and eggs are given protection at the SWRRC, which runs under Sheshavana Charitable Trust in Bana in Kallare here.


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