National park
Guindy National Park
Urban scrub forest and former governor's estate where blackbuck and spotted deer graze.
0:00≈ 2 min
Location
0:00≈ 2 min
About this audio guide
This guide to Guindy National Park in Chennai sets aside the blackbuck for a moment and follows Romulus Whitaker, an American-born herpetologist who moved his snake park onto this forest campus in the early nineteen seventies. It turns on the Irula, a tribe of snake trackers whose livelihood a new wildlife law suddenly took away, and on the keepers who still handle venomous snakes in front of an audience. Best heard near the snake park entrance, with the scrub forest at your back.
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