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The Story of a Man Who Spent 72 Hours with 72 Venomous Snakes To Prove They Only Bite if Provoked
Respected Indian herpetologist Neelam Kumar Khaire has a very interesting record to his name. In his youth, this reptile lover spent 72 hours in an enclosure with 72 venomous snakes for company. He proved that the snakes only bite when provoked, and set a Guinness record in the process.
Khaire’s legendary feat dates back to 1980, when the then 28-year-old receptionist at a hotel in Pune decided to challenge the record set by South African Peter Snyemaris, a year before. Snyemaris had spent 50 hours with 18 venomous and six semi-poisonous snakes in Johannesburg, South Africa, but Neelam believed that an Indian deserved the world record more, seeing as India was known as a land of snakes. Despite opposition from local authorities like the police, which would neither take him seriously nor permit him to go ahead with his plan, on January 20, 1980, Neelam Kumar Khaire stepped in a glass
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Patched up wall at Katraj Zoo leads to 4 blackbucks dying
Patched up wall at Katraj Zoo leads to 4 blackbucks dying
BySupriya Dedgaonkar / Photographs byRahul DeshmukhSupriya Dedgaonkar / Updated: Jan 8, 2021, 19:15 IST
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Hungry stray dogs entered zoo and chased protected species herd, leading to chaos; zoo blames PMC for leaving broken wall unfixed since 2019, while civic body scrambles to make amends.
The gross mismanagement of all authorities concerned has led to deaths of protected species animals at a zoo in the heart of the city, underscoring the irony of urban officials being unable to prevent an incident that usually takes place in the wild.
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