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Let sleeping snakes lie

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Friday, January 4, 2013

 

The Emperor Valley Zoo needs to be congratulated for responding to the frantic phone calls from those SRPs who ran into Sarp, the serpent, as she was taking a lazy afternoon snooze in her Caroni home range. Sarp was arrested—using a hastily-contrived lasso—for loitering and held secure for several hours until the zoo ambulance zoomed into the picture. 
 
Now, she’s in her own enclosure between Brian Charles Lara and His Excellency, The President, and pulling in more gawkers than them. 
I wished the SRPs had left her where she was.
 
Critters like Sarp do not get to her size—six metres—overnight, nor by chance. More than likely, Sarp grew up elsewhere, then recently swam upriver from the Caroni Swamp, or floated down in an earlier flood.  Sarp ought to have been left to her own devices rather than carted off to the zoo and become subjected to prying eyes while dining on rats she didn’t catch for herself.
 
Against such a backdrop, it would be a good thing if SRPs attached or assigned to patrol areas such as where Sarp was trapped be trained in how to treat properly with wildlife. 
 
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