Illegally bred cobras escape from farm in Nanjing
Updated: 2016-10-11 13:35
By Zhu Lixin(chinadaily.com.cn)
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More than 200 young cobras recently escaped from a farm in Najing city, capital of East China's Jiangsu province, and more than 50 remained missing by end of Monday.
The local authorities said that the escaped cobras, or monocled cobras specifically, were illegally bred by the Chunyi Animal Breeding Cooperative based in the city's Luhe district.
The snakes disappeared between August 26 and 29, but it was only on Monday night that the local people found out through social media.
"The farm has been searching for the runaway cobras and has captured or killed more than 150 of them," said the Luhe government Monday night.
The government discovered the incident after a cobra was found and killed in a villager's home on Saturday.
The farm bought monocled cobra eggs from Shaoguan city of South China's Guangdong province in early August and incubated about 1,820 cobras, out of which some 1,500 survived.
The farm had neither reported to the government nor got any permission for the breeding business before and after the incubation, according to local authorities, who launched a "carpet search" for the runaway snakes on Tuesday morning.
Officials from the Luhe government's publicity department said the young cobras, about 20 centimeters long, are not as dangerous as the adult ones and they will not probably survive the upcoming cold winter.
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