MYSORE: A green anaconda housed at the Mysore Zoo has hatched an egg graduating the Mysore facility as India's first zoo to have successfully bred the world's biggest snake.

A four year old anaconda is found to have hatched the egg on Friday and the newborn is shifted to the zoo hospital, the executive director B P Ravi said on Sunday. The zoo attributed its death to a nervous disorder and argued it was possibly a weakling but said the exact reasons will be known after a post-mortem. Mysore zoo is created in 1892 on 10 acres of land and now it is spreading across 157 acres.

WELCOME TO MYSURU ZOO Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens, popularly known as 'Mysore Zoo', is one of the oldest zoos of the country established in 1892, by his highness, the erstwhile ruler of Mysore Sri Chamarajendra Wadiyar Bahadur. Zoo was originally set up by a German landscaper and horticulturist G. H. Krumbiegel. Now, the conservation centre is left with three anacondas which came to Mysore from Sri Lanka in November last year. MYSORE: A green anaconda housed at the Mysore Zoo died suddenly on Sunday.
The zoo was opened to the public in 1902 and the centenary celebrations were held in 1990-1991.