Place
The Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and Centre for Herpetology
Coastal reptile park breeding crocodiles, with live venom-milking shows by Irula snake catchers.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Madras Crocodile Bank, south of Chennai on the East Coast Road, sets you at the venom pit run by Irula snake catchers, mid-show, with a cobra rearing at a waving cloth. It reaches back to the nineteen-seventies, to a tribe whose skills suddenly lost their market and to the herpetologist Romulus Whitaker. Stand at the wall above the pit, near the rows of clay pots.
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