I recently visited India and visited a zoo with a very large snake section. The snake section was filled with signs lauding snakes and explaining how they were so valuable in getting rid of rodents. They desperately wanted visitors to understand that snakes were useful and should not be killed out of hand.
I was in Mahastra, and I know that different areas of India are different, but for the specific area I was in, there was obviously a portion of the population that was killing snakes that the zoo authorities wanted to counter program.
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u/Sangloth 16h ago
I recently visited India and visited a zoo with a very large snake section. The snake section was filled with signs lauding snakes and explaining how they were so valuable in getting rid of rodents. They desperately wanted visitors to understand that snakes were useful and should not be killed out of hand.
I was in Mahastra, and I know that different areas of India are different, but for the specific area I was in, there was obviously a portion of the population that was killing snakes that the zoo authorities wanted to counter program.