PUNE Twenty-two Russell’s viper snakelets were rescued from a row house in Talegaon Dabhade on Friday. According to the environmentalists, a snake had given birth to the young ones, a few days ago.
The event came to light after Nilesh Garade of Vanyajeev Sanstha, Maval, received a phone call about their presence. Two members of the team comprising Zakir Shaikh and Jigar Solanki rescued them and later released them in the forest area.
Garade said that a villager had spotted the baby in a ditch in the row house area and when he looked in detail found that their number was around 22. “He informed us and accordingly a team was sent and the snakelets were rescued,” he said.
Russell’s viper (Daboia russelii) is a venomous snake in the family Viperidae native to the Indian subcontinent and one of the biggest snakes in India.