This is in stark contrast to the situation 2000 years ago when incense trade was at its peak and Arabian traders had monopoly of the world market. Frankincense was sent to various parts of the Europe on the famous frankincense trail which covered around 2,400 miles, stretching from the south of Oman through Yemen s high mountains across the dunes and bleak volcanic deserts of Saudi Arabia to Petra, a port in today s Jordan. How such a far flung trade was organised is something which sets you thinking and wondering if the early men were really as ignorant as we assume they were. Top Snake man of Bangalore Anees Ahmed is a herpetologist. You would ask what a herpetologist is all about.
Any person having interest and expertise in reptiles especially snakes is known as herpetologist.
He recently became the first snake expert in India to get the cobra eggs hatched in his private laboratory at home. He turned his small fish aquarium into an incubator where it took 30 days for eggs to produce small cobras. During this period the temperature was maintained at 30 degree Celsius with 90 per cent humidity. Later they were released into the national park near Bangalore. Anees is today known as an expert in catching and handling snakes.