Python becomes a mother 40 times over: 16-05-2008
A python in a Ugandan animal conservation centre has hatched 40 offspring, it has been revealed.
The 30-year-old python was rescued back in 2007 after being found in a hotel and is now kept at the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (UWEC) situated in the town of Entebbe, which lies around 40 kilometres from Uganda's capital city Kampala.
Eggs being incubated by the python hatched on Friday, May 16th, government paper the New Vision has reported.
However, not all of the snakes will be kept at the wildlife centre as it will not be possible to maintain such a large group.
The centre restricts itself to keeping animals - typically reptiles and chimpanzees - which have been rescued from either poachers or people who are keeping them illegally.
Those young snakes which are not kept by the centre will be released into the wild, although survival rates are likely to be low given their status as fodder for predators including monitor lizards.
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