Professor's Snake rescue

Professor's Snake rescue

A passion and fascination has not stopped Mr.Murugavel, from rescuing snake in urban cities. He works as a professor in Venkateshwara College, Chennai .Though his profession his teaching he use to rescue snakes from cities in and around Chennai whenever he gets a call from friends of friends. Beyond interest, I do this as a social service and I am also a part of Irula cooperative society. A nature lover started his journey by catching a whip serpent in hand, near Perambur railway quarters, while heading towards home from school.

“We have 157 species of snakes all over India, a spectacle cobra can be highly dangerous but it’s rarely present in cities “says Mr.murugavel. I read allot about snakes and its adaptation towards nature so I can clearly disagree with the myth of snake building a clay bush since it only has an ability to hide under big Cichlid stones and rat burrows, Snakes do not swallow broken eggs and rarely step into houses as they are mainly depend upon rats, he adds.

English professor, A nature lover has allot of books about nature, animals, whales  and a wooden sculptures of vulture hunting snake and a crocodile in his show cases.

“Banjara snake music is foolish as we all know snakes has no ears and the snake dancer is cheating us for decades “says the professor .The non venomous snakes are harmless as the whip snakes will not bite the eyes of the humans, the superstitious belief about serpents without knowing the profile of each species makes the common man to believe all myths. Many will not know how to handle the snake in hand and some tensions and disturbance will surely turn the snake to angry. Thus, it bites. There are Two types of toxin produced by venomous snakes which is highly dangerous cobra which attacks the central nervous system by producing neurotoxic and slow poison is the Russell Viper’s hemotoxic as it mixes with our hemoglobin and reduces the immune power and our total blood corrupts ,adds Mr.Murugavel.

The English professor joined the hands with Irula cooperative society, a Chennai based group who does social service .He started moving out to track snakes and to demonstrate the public by create awareness about snakes which is organized by IRULA cooperative society. In Irula’s helping to produce antivenin, the co-op also provides a valuable social service. More than 30,000 people die due to snakebites in India each year. There is a huge demand for venom, which is used to produce antivenin, the only known cure for the effects of snake venom.

The English professor spends his leisure time in snake parks. Recently encountered a rat snake rescue at adayar .A few weeks ago, a friend of mine referred me to that person in one morning, I reached there and rescued the snake which is hidden below the stone near car parking and now, its set freed in Nanmangalam reserved forest. He is free to help people all the time except when he is engaged himself in lectures. The professor is ready to rescue snakes in and around Chennai for free of cost and he is doing this as a social service.

_Lingaraja Sivanaiah