Air India flies rare anacondas

Chennai: National carrier Air India transported four baby anacondas on board its flight from Colombo to Mumbai via Chennai as cargo on Thursday evening.
Known for its expertise in carrying different types of special cargo, the airline had carried a rare endangered female Tomistoma crocodile on its flight from Chennai to Ahmedabad last year.
On Thursday, AI flight 274 from Colombo carrying the four green-coloured baby anacondas landed at 5.50 pm in Chennai and left for Mumbai at 6.40 pm.
The two male and two female anacondas were originally to have reached Chennai by a Sri Lankan Airlines flig-ht and later transported by an Air India flight.
“But due to downgrading of the Sri Lankan Air-lines flight, the cargo containing the rarest species of anaconda was carried by an Air India flight to Chennai.
However, the cargo was not offloaded in Chennai. It continued its journey to Mumbai, from where it travelled by road to reach the Kamala Nehru Zoological Park in Ahmedabad,” said an AI spokesperson.
26/11/11 Deccan Chronicle

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