ever bitten by a snake? (in india)

yogivivek

i heard so many stories about people killd by snake bites, i readed that there are like 20.000 kills by snakes in a year in india.

so somebody any experiences with snakes? doesnt have to be a bite just any experience, i would like to see some snakes when im in india.
will that might happen?

oke cya

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edwardseco

Except at NagPanchmi and at a desultory zoo I have never seen a snake in India and I was often in rural areas. My wife had a cobra enter the compound when she was young. THe odds must be insignificant compared to being bitten by dogs and monkeys..

cyberhippie

I agree edwardseco, to date I've encountered three snakes! Two lime green ones in Goa and a big one in the Mountains of southern Goa, perhaps a king cobra, it was certainly big enough and prevelant in the area. Although the sighting was was from a motorbike so who knows?
Anyway lots of time in India few snakes!!!

wonderwomanusa

There are snakes in the hills above Pushkar, so if you hike up to the temples there, be very careful. met an Australian fellow in 1989 who had been bitten; he spent several months walking with crutches.

He wrote a book about his experience; I think I have a copy of it, but can't locate it right now.

seventies'hippy

yogivivek

thanks hippy from the 70ths

Ikuru

Ive seen five snakes alltoghether in Nine months of India

Two green Ones (One I might have run over with my bicycle) Two big brown ones (One outside my house/the locals called it a "Toilet Snake") and a cool small black and brown one/full on respectfull, had a good look at it/wasnt scarry or nothing....

My snake Locations:... Hampi 1 / Konark 1 / Anjuna 3...

This is not counting cobras in baskets, neither stuff Ive seen on Acid... Wicked!!!

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yogivivek

nice pics, im in love with the green one..

phreako1

lived on a farm in a rural area of andhra pradesh for a couple of months and saw plenty of snakes, almost on a daily basis, especially after it had rained.
Check out the pic of the cobra finishing a bullfrog in my gallery
I also saw one viper in the nearby hills, lots of ratsnakes and checkered keelbacks ("watersnakes") and one day had a visit of a beautiful green vinesnake ("treesnake") in the classroom i was teaching in, i'll try to post a pic of that fella too. The only one i actually dared to catch...

If you're into snakes there's a nice fieldguide on indian snakes by romulus withaker called 'snakes of india'.

greetz tms

Merchant

The snakebite numbers in India swell because of the demand for snakes. You can make a small mint in India harvesting and/or capturing snakes to sell for use in rituals in India and for black-market export to East Asia. In South India, snakes really are everywhere--you are just not likely to see them. People, especially poor children in rural areas, capture them and sell them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1184008.stm

Shaktipalooza

A couple of years ago I was walking around the less visited hallways of the Amber Fort in Jaipur. Came around a corner and a viper lunged at me from a stairwell. I've never seen such an aggresive snake in my life.

Luckily I jumped back out of the way to make clear for the the little guy. I was a lot more cautious when walking around less trafficked areas after that.

shere

Living in rural Haryana on my visits I have seen plenty of snake skin left after they shed skin but only seen 2 snakes alive.

One I saw more than 14 years ago. The neighbours were making a huge commotion as if a tiger had got into their house. I casually went round and saw there was a small snake which had caused the whole scene. Poor bugger soon had its head chopped off and was then buried.

timmy

Apparently in a quarter of bites from poisonous snakes, the snake doesn't inject any venom. The first bite is often a warning and the snake is in control of how much venom it injects. As they only produce a certain amount they are very judicious as to when they actually use it.

Hope that makes everyone feel better.

Oh, and in three months I haven't seen as snake that wasn't in a little basket.

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Ikuru

Oh, dont worry.. Eventually you will...

timmy

Better be quick: I've only got 10 days left!

I saw a good sized lizard once... does that count?

BTW I have nothing against snakes. I have held two huge pythons over my shoulders and I think snakes are beautiful, and their skin/scales feel so silky and amazing. Quite different from my friend who covers his eyes when one appears on TV. I guess that's the thing about irrational fears, tho. They're irrational.