Mysore/Mysuru: “Biodiversity plays an important role in maintaining the health and ecological balance in an ecosystem. All living organisms are in a complex food web and help to maintain a population balance. Without snakes, the number of prey species would increase to unnatural levels and destroy the stability of the ecosystem. Similarly, if a large…
Students study slithering snakes on Snake Day
July 16, 2019Mysuru: World Snake Day is celebrated on July 16 to know and understand many things about these reptiles, which are on the path of extinction. World Snake Day is also held to help remove people’s fear and illusion about snakes. Mysuru Zoo celebrated World Snake Day today by creating awareness about snakes to students and…
Mysuru Zoo to celebrate World Snake Day on July 16
July 14, 2019Mysuru: Snakes are incredible creatures, limbless reptiles with long, cylindrical bodies, scaly skin, lidless eyes, and a forked tongue. Most species are not poisonous, some are mildly poisonous, and others produce a deadly poison. There are at least 20 families, about 500 genera and 3,400 species of snake in the world. There are 270-plus species…
World Snake Day celebrated
July 17, 2018It is very important to protect and conserve snakes for the future of mankind, says Snake Shyam Mysuru: “Snakes do not drink milk or ghee, they are non-vegetarians,” said city’s well-known snake rescuer Snake Shyam. Delivering a lecture as part of World Snake Day at Mysuru Zoo auditorium here yesterday, Shyam said: “snakes played an…
Talk by herpetologist to mark World Snake Day tomorrow
July 15, 2018Mysuru: Snakes are incredible creatures, and our world is groaning with at least 3,000 different species that are slithering their way around our planet. The 16th of July is being celebrated as World Snake Day. An important contribution of World Snake Day is to the cause of conservation of sometimes dangerous but mostly misrepresented reptile….
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