VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

SERPENTINES

• It is to be remembered that nearly one third of snakes in the world are poisonous in nature to some degree. Snakes are the most recently evolved reptiles and hence may have more features that are in common with lizards. Of the 244 species of Indian snakes, 52 are poisonous in nature