Python severely injured by fishing net survives after surgery in veterinary college in Tirunelveli

In a uncommon case, veterinarians astatine the Veterinary College and Research Institute (VCRI) successful Tirunelveli connected Thursday surgically treated a four-year-old python, which had suffered a terrible laceration aft being trapped successful a sportfishing net.

The six-foot snake, weighing astir 4 kilograms, was brought successful for attraction by Moolakal wood ranger Balasubramanian, with assistance from the Karu Animal Rescue Unit Trust, Veeravanallur. “The section radical who spotted the snake mistook it for a viper and alerted the Forest Department. The officials rescued it and presented it for attraction to Dr. Manoharan, a veterinarian successful the department. He referred the reptile to america arsenic it required country nether anaesthesia,” said S.C. Edwin, Dean of the VCRI.