Jharkhand zoo hatches cobra and sand boa eggs through artificial incubation first time

The Bhagwan Birsa Biological Park in Ormanjhi, Ranchi, successfully achieved artificial incubation of Spectacled Cobra eggs for the first time in the facility's history, resulting in five healthy hatchlings. Apart from this, the park also recorded the birth of eight healthy Sand Boa hatchlings during the same period, adding to its ongoing reptile conservation and breeding initiatives.How was the incubation was carried outAccording to Dr Om Prakash Sahu, veterinarian at the park, seven Spectacled Cobra eggs were placed inside a controlled artificial incubation system where temperature and humidity were carefully regulated. The eggs were monitored for nearly 70 to 72 days, following established scientific protocols, before five hatchlings successfully emerged. Dr Sahu called it "the first instance of successful artificial incubation of Spectacled Cobra eggs at the park."