Both are venomous, but look rather different.
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Photo by Preston AhimazNow, please read the article below, and tell me which snake do you think that is.
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The photo in the news is evident enough that it was a Russel Viper. It wonder who made the mistake, the reporter or the forest staff.
ReplyDeleteYou have a nice blog. I specifically like this post and the one on monitors.
ReplyDeleteThe monitor you have shot is a huge fella, the one I saw was not even half that size.
Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog...Thomas
Whichever, it is frightening enough. but if it was the Russel Viper, I am amazed that the forest staff handled it with such insouciance -
ReplyDeleteDefinitely looks like a viper, based on your photos. Krait...viper...it's probably all the same to them. Some snake. Which is so wrong and shoddy.
ReplyDeleteI knew I should've turned my garden into a Snake Park!
ReplyDeleteI've got plenty of the R.Vipers slithering around. No, that's not true, they dont slither... they inch their way as if to say, "here I am. You going to try to do something about it? Ha!"
And they hiss! If anyone hears them hiss, there's no way they could mistake them for anything else but a Russell's Viper.
Oh, and did I mention I've got plenty of Cobras too?
zigackly! ferpectly right! How come they can make mistake like this?
ReplyDeleteYes PSYL, I too wonder...thought it seems more likely to be the journo, in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteThank you Thomas, though i thought your monitor was bigger than mine!! For those wondering what we are talking about, please do visit TandS' blog - there are some great monitor lizard photos, as well as a great photo-essay on the black buck.
You're right Raji, the forest staff and snake park crew are highly skilled at this - or so it definitely seems to the inexperienced like us.
Kamini and Vishwanath, you both passed the test with flying colours, or should I say with glorious spots!
Sunita, your garden suddenly doesnt sound er..., that inviting!! So they hiss is it, and move slowly?
What a lovely blog you've got here!
ReplyDeleteThe Russel's Viper is a beautiful snake and I saw one of them shedding at Bannerghatta. Unforgettable.
may be their tamil names caused the confusion Kattuvirian-Krait and Kanaadi viriyan-Russells viper........that is a russells viper undoubtedly .Media always makes mistakes as far as environmental news is concerned,a lot of 'em everytime.
ReplyDelete'Smee, you were fortunate with the viper. yes it is rather lovely - in a photo, esp!!
ReplyDeleteHopeland thanks for the Tamil names.
The press make a lot of mistakes, and its not only on the environment front - its always good, I've learned, to treat with caution everything that appears in the media!!
Today on sun news they called the(erandu thalai pambu coz of the resemblances of the head to its tail)actual name in tamil-sowp mun pambu.(i.e)red sand boa to be Erandu thalai viriyan.Viriyan refers to vipers generally.
ReplyDeleteA lethal duo. I have a lot of respect for them when I am out in the wild.
ReplyDeletetamil name of common krait is 'yennai viriyan or yettadi viriyan' yettadi means 8 feet, but it is not mean the lenght of the snake, it means, if it bits a man, his death will be in 8 feet!! it is an of the very dangorus snakes in the world. The picture which published was not krait, it is Russell's viper, in tamil 'kannadi viriyan'.
ReplyDeleteThank you Evanooruvan. Now we have many Tamil names for the krait!
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