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[h=1]What if the snake is faster than the catche[/h]
A 13-feet-long python, which was caught by snake catcher R. Kiran Kumar near a school in Muralinagar, being displayed before handing it over to the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday.- Photo: K.R. Deepak
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Rokkam Kiran is Vizag’s snake catcher. He catches at least five crawlers a day, taking calls from alarmed householders living in houses at the foot of the city’s hillocks. He has caught 15,000 in his career, and claims to have made a name for himself in the Limca Book of Records and such like.
As with many intrepid snake catchers fed on a diet of NatGeo Wild, he likes to risk it. He carries no cleft stick with him and grabs the intruding reptiles with his bare hands. Needless to say, he doesn’t have a vial of anti-venin on his person. On Wednesday, he caught a 45 kg post-prandial python in Muralinagar in Vizag. It was all in a day’s work for him.
But pythons are easy. If they have had their lunch, they can hardly be bothered to move. Besides, they aren’t poisonous.
But Mr Kiran is beginning to get worried. There have been two instances lately of snake-catchers taking their eyes off their quarry and getting bitten. Last month, Shimoga’s famous snake catcher, named Snake Kiran, was hospitalized after a beautiful albino king cobra got the better of him as he tried to usher it into a bottle.
Back in September, Chikkamagaluru’s snake man, Prafulla Das Bhat, died after being bitten by a king cobra he was trying to catch.
Read more at: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities...is-faster-than-the-catcher/article7820610.ece
A 13-feet-long python, which was caught by snake catcher R. Kiran Kumar near a school in Muralinagar, being displayed before handing it over to the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday.- Photo: K.R. Deepak
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Rokkam Kiran is Vizag’s snake catcher. He catches at least five crawlers a day, taking calls from alarmed householders living in houses at the foot of the city’s hillocks. He has caught 15,000 in his career, and claims to have made a name for himself in the Limca Book of Records and such like.
As with many intrepid snake catchers fed on a diet of NatGeo Wild, he likes to risk it. He carries no cleft stick with him and grabs the intruding reptiles with his bare hands. Needless to say, he doesn’t have a vial of anti-venin on his person. On Wednesday, he caught a 45 kg post-prandial python in Muralinagar in Vizag. It was all in a day’s work for him.
But pythons are easy. If they have had their lunch, they can hardly be bothered to move. Besides, they aren’t poisonous.
But Mr Kiran is beginning to get worried. There have been two instances lately of snake-catchers taking their eyes off their quarry and getting bitten. Last month, Shimoga’s famous snake catcher, named Snake Kiran, was hospitalized after a beautiful albino king cobra got the better of him as he tried to usher it into a bottle.
Back in September, Chikkamagaluru’s snake man, Prafulla Das Bhat, died after being bitten by a king cobra he was trying to catch.
Read more at: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities...is-faster-than-the-catcher/article7820610.ece
