{"id":8741,"date":"2013-03-11T18:13:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T12:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=8741"},"modified":"2013-03-11T18:18:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T12:48:14","slug":"trivandrum-zoo-may-become-home-to-anaconda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/trivandrum-zoo-may-become-home-to-anaconda\/","title":{"rendered":"Trivandrum Zoo may become home to Anaconda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If everything goes as planned, <strong>Trivandrum city zoo<\/strong> will become home to the world\u2019s largest snake \u2013 <strong>Anaconda<\/strong>. Negotiations have started with Sri Lanka regarding the transfer of anacondas from Lanka. Since the animal would be moved from another country, foreign trade norms should be strictly followed. And this could delay the process of exchanging animals between zoos.<\/p>\n<ul>\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\">Read\u00a0What links Trivandrum zoo to Life of Pi<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cSome months ago, zoo directors and veterinarians from several States and a few neighboring countries got together at a workshop at Darjeeling. There, we met our Sri Lankan counterparts and this idea was mooted then,\u201d said Trivandrum Zoo Director K. Udayavarman.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the director received a follow-up email sent by Sri Lankan zoo officials and he is optimistic about the Amazonian giant finding a place in ophidian (a suborder of reptiles that comprises the snakes) collection of the city zoo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst we need to get the consent of the Animal Husbandry Department. Only then can we expect to get clearance from the Zoo Authority. Then we proceed to the final tier of this process, which is to apply for the foreign trade certificate,\u201d said Mr. Udayavarman<\/p>\n<p>However, the process will take at least six months. Since the discussions are in its early stage, it is still unclear on how many anacondas will be brought in.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a proposal to bring over white tigers \u00a0\u201cAnimal exchange is not an easy task. But dialogue is still open with the Vishakhapatnam zoo and with the New Delhi Zoological Park as well,\u201d said the director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If everything goes as planned, Trivandrum city zoo will become home to the world\u2019s largest snake \u2013 Anaconda. Negotiations have started with Sri Lanka regarding the transfer of anacondas from Lanka. Since the animal would be moved from another country, foreign trade norms should be strictly followed. And this could delay the process of exchanging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-8741","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\/8741"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}