M.S. Balasubramania, the snake-catcher and conservationist better known as ‘Snake‘ Shyam, displays a seven-feet-long python, reported to be slithering at an apartment near the Infosys campus in Mysore on Tuesday night. The greenish-black reptile, about four years old, weighed nearly 20 kilograms.
Shyam, who has been at it since 1982, handed over the prize catch to the Mysore zoo on Wednesday.
Photograph: Karnataka Photo News
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19,999 after he caught the first one in 1982
Tags: Churumuri, Karnataka Photo News, KPN, Mysore Zoo, Sans Serif, Snake Sham, Snake Shyam
11 August 2010 at 10:18 pm
I think he can and should start a NGC in Kannada for adventurists and awareness creation among our people. He is truly world class.
12 August 2010 at 4:51 pm
what big deal! he’s just caught about 3 snakes average per day!
12 August 2010 at 9:16 pm
Poor Python. Now it’ll rot in the Zoo, instead of roaming around, finding a mate and dying free..
15 August 2010 at 6:02 pm
Beautiful species.They are so amazing in their kind.We must preserve them.
16 August 2010 at 11:30 am
what was it doing in “chop shop” :-)