Bengaluru: 7 eggs of common kukri snake found

Bengaluru | Saturday | 20th October, 2018

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I inspected the spot and realised it was a 1.5ft long Common Kukri snake. BENGALURU: A wildlife snakelet has incubated seven 80-day-old eggs of the common kukri snake , recovered from a sump in RK Hegde Nagar, northeast Bengaluru. We released all of them into the habitat,” he added.The snake gets the name from its kukri knife-shaped tooth. “She said a snake had hatched eggs on the slab of their sump. “About a decade ago, these nocturnal and semi-fossorial species were common here, but not anymore..