Thirty-two snakelets received a gift of life thanks to a timely rescue. <br /><br />Workers of an under-construction house in Bhubaneswar, India, noticed snake eggs and placed a call to Snake Helpline.<br /><br />The members of the animal rescue organisation rushed to the spot and found a bunch of Checkered keelback eggs abandoned by their mother. Most of the eggs were intact though invading armies of ants had begun to devour on them. <br /><br />The members managed to rescue 32 eggs and put them in an artificial incubator in their office.<br /><br />Lively snakelets began to pop out of eggs on April 10, 16 days after they had been rescued. <br /><br />Suvendu Malik, Secretary of Snake Helpline, said: “All the 32 eggs hatched, our effort was 100% success.”<br /><br />The snakes were later released in a nearby river.
