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Daboia russelii
Body massive, cylindrical, narrowing at both ends, head flat, triangular with short snout. Large gold flecked eyes with vertical pupil and large open nostrils. Ground colour brown with three series of large ovate spots, one vertibral and two coastal. Spots brown at center and margined successively by black and white or buff. Belly white, whitish or yellowish.
Normally sluggish and does not strike readily unless irritated. Usually it contents itself with hissing, the volume exceeding of any other snake. When striking, it hurtles itself forward and may even leave the ground. largely nocturnal, its movements are slow never exceeding a crawl and if disturbed often prefers to maintains its ground angrily hissing and heaving sides. Feeds largely on rodents.
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Beauty !
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A stunner!
Beautiful photo of a beautiful snake. Congrats.
Wow! Quite the snake. Great find!
great snap and info rivu
Rivu,
your facts are scientific and accurate and your presentation is superb!
You are a true lover of nature! Hope that youngsters like you and others will help India get back its lost treasures!! I was just reading an article about
Depression and anxiety and its relation to nature. Nature has an antidepressant effect and its loss does not help much!
deadly but useful. its main food is rodent and rodents account for 30-40 % loss in crop. so by eating the rodents it is actually doing a great work towards mankind..
This to date is one of my favorites ,knowing the deadly nature of the creature!!
Thanks Jonathan
QUE BELLEZA DE SERPIENTE Y MUY BUENA FOTO....
Sām̐pa hai ki saundarya aura bahuta acchā phōṭō..
Beauty and the beast!!!!
it is responsible for the most snake-bite deaths in India....
what a beauty!
Great shot!
nice photo!