HOW TO RECOGNISE DANGEROUS SNAKES?

TO RECOGNISE THE TOXICITY OF A SNAKE CUD BE REALLY USEFULL IF ONCE IN A WHILE YOU ARE CAUGHT IN A 'SNAKE ENTRAP'..THIS ARTICLE IS USEFUL SPECIALLY FOR THOSE WHO LOVE ADVENTUROUS AND THRILLING SAFARIS!!! Ha..Ha...you might be astonished that a doctor by profession talkin' 'bout 'snakes'! Yeah ..I did have an experience of its kind while living in my huge villa at my native province..Before I shifted to Chandigarh We used to reside in a town in state Punjab...n we owned a huge villa there purchased by my late dad...We built a small swimming pool in the rear garden..thou' it was a small pool...not of standard size 25metres or 50metres..but it was around 8-10 metres long ..2metres broad and around 3-5 feet deep...it was built seeing mine and my only sis' interest for swimming..but to be frank we cud hardly use it as a source for swimming but it always provided as a 'home' and a 'fun spot' for frogs..their larvae and mostly snakes specially in summers...Cos those who had gone thru same experience they might be aware that Amphibians n other hibernating species like frogs snakes and other species love to reside in a damp wet and cool place in summers...and cos of my swimming pool I had to put off all its water out of that pool every weekend and refill fresh water for our fun filled bathings...since I used to find lots of frogs and a row of larvae every next morning..that used to 'dive in' every night cos of wetness n cold ambience...and then started the moments to host snakes...which used to visit even my room..my sis room...our living and drawing room every now and then...the reason was their feed of frogs and toads....(snake eats frogs and toads) apart from wetness..they loved being fed on frogs n toads and after having their 'meals' they used to hide in our rooms....you wont believe...sometimes under the beds...sometimes in some corner of our rooms..and few times even besides me in my bed!!!! And initially I also used to freak out the same way as you might be getting now....but then as it became the usual stuff...I got the chance to study this species a bit...And there i came to know tht like any pet dog of ours they are as afraid and harmless to any man..unless one tries to harm and hurt them...I was hardly 10 yrs old at tht time..Unlike Man who can use its power for Ego and Display...a snake wud never do that...it does so only either for its basic requirement the food or if accidentally its tail or body part comes under man's feet...only then as its defensive mechanism it might get furious and tries to bite back....And then after realising its harmless nature we seldom killed it...and always tried to let it go off into fields behind our rear garden.... ....Actually these snakes..which are mainly mud colored...green or brown...these are called Water Snakes...and are usually v least toxic as compared to those in black or jet dark black colors....their venom is not so poisonuos...and fatal...one can easily survive its bite if its a water snake and is brown or green or light colored...as the color of a snake goes on darkening and blackening it gets more n more poisonous....So for a layman...any snake cud be recognised broadly thru its color coding.....for your information these types of snakes are usually consumed for eating also by many tribes and races in the world. Aryan dr.aryan@ymail.com PS: This article is merely for sharing and by no means it s meant to encourage experimentation merely depending upon the color of a snake.