Artificial Incubation Of Eggs, Snake Tejas Rescued More Than 25 Baby Pythons

Mangaluru
A young reptile lover, Tejas Bannur of Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district, rescued more than 25 pythons and left them in different forests of the district.
Tejas has been rescuing endangered reptiles and releasing them back into the wild for the last five to six years. So far, more than 100 python cubs have been released into the forest and the offspring of pythons have been saved.
Pythons lay their eggs in hollow parts of fallen coconut trees, often inside tree trunks. Pythons incubate their young for about sixty days. Among snakes, only pythons and rattlesnakes incubate their eggs to produce young. Pythons and rattlesnakes leave their eggs and migrate elsewhere only when disturbed by humans or other animals. In this case, there are chances that the eggs will spoil without hatching.
Thus Tejas, with the permission of the forest department, takes the orphaned eggs to his house and arranges for artificial incubation. Similarly, this time 12 eggs collected in Anantadi of Bantwala taluk and 13 eggs collected in Kanyana Ukkuda of Vitla were artificially incubated and released into different forests of the district.
Snake Tejas said, I found 12 eggs 35 days ago in Anantadi and 13 eggs 24 days ago in Ukkuda. They were hatched artificially. It was on the road side in Ukkuda. Even though it was a baby, there was a danger that it would come to the road and die. The eggs have been released in the forests in the area in the presence of the forest officials, he informed.