{"id":10364,"date":"2013-05-15T14:49:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T09:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=10364"},"modified":"2013-05-15T14:49:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T09:19:05","slug":"anacondas-coming-to-trivandrum-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/anacondas-coming-to-trivandrum-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Anacondas coming to Trivandrum Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some months ago, zoo directors and veterinarians from several States and a few neighbouring countries got together at a workshop at Darjeeling. There, an idea was mooted to <strong>transfer Anacondas from Sri Lanka to Trivandrum city zoo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Also Read:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Trivandrum: Museum gets a 3D theatre and a buggy\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/museum-gets-a-3d-theatre-and-a-buggy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trivandrum: Museum gets a 3D theatre and a buggy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"What links Trivandrum zoo to Life of Pi\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/what-links-trivandrum-zoo-to-life-of-pi\/\" target=\"_blank\">What links Trivandrum zoo to Life of Pi<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) has given the nod to the zoo\u2019s proposal to<a title=\"Trivandrum Zoo may become home to Anaconda\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/trivandrum-zoo-may-become-home-to-anaconda\/\" target=\"_blank\"> bring over the anacondas.<\/a> However, the City Zoo must obtain clearance from the Directorate of Foreign Trade and from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) within six months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CZA\u2019s sanction will expire in six months. We must get the snakes over before that,\u201d said zoo vet Jacob Alexander.<\/p>\n<p>Six anacondas will be transferred to Trivandrum City Zoo. Initially, they will be placed in quarantine which is a legal requirement. During the quarantine period, the snakes will not be put on display. Once the period is over, they will be shifted to enclosure which now houses the Indian Rock Python. Given the sizes to which these Amazonian giants grow, the zoo authorities will have to come up with a bigger enclosure within 2-3 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnacondas have this reputation for being man-hunting, vengeful creatures. One easily associates the behaviour of these snakes with what is shown in the movie series \u2018Anaconda.\u2019 One reason why we wish to bring over these snakes is to dispel myths about their behaviour patterns.\u201d the zoo vet told <em>\u2018 &#8211; The Hindu.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Zoo authorities are also planning to bring White Tiger, nilgai, rhesus monkey, barking deer, white ibis, red jungle fowl and painted stork. The zoo also plans to bring giraffe and zebra, but there are no zoos in the country that have these animals in surplus.\u00a0 Bringing these animals from other countries is both difficult and expensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some months ago, zoo directors and veterinarians from several States and a few neighbouring countries got together at a workshop at Darjeeling. There, an idea was mooted to transfer Anacondas from Sri Lanka to Trivandrum city zoo. Also Read: Trivandrum: Museum gets a 3D theatre and a buggy What links Trivandrum zoo to Life of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-10364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}