Indian ringed snake.
is one of the most terrifying venomous snakes in India,
It is also known as the vampire of Western legends.
It is the most poisonous of the four poisonous snakes in India,
It belongs to the cobra family Ringed snakes.
The head is small and elliptical in shape,
The body is slender and slender.
The main color of the back is black-brown,
It has a faint white horizontal stripe.
It looks very similar to the silver-ringed snake of the mainland.
Indian ringed snake is a nocturnal cold-blooded animal,
It usually inhabits during the day,
Perched underneath vegetation in dense shrubs,
Or burrow into abandoned nests of other animals.
In the evening,
They will crawl out of their habitat in search of food.
They mainly feed on animals such as lizards and mice,
But also likes to prey on its own kind.
If you encounter other species in your predation at night,
Then they will not hesitate to start.
In this case, the brave win.
The Indian ringed snake will attack directly at the neck position of its kind,
Once bitten, it will not let go easily,
And a lot of venom will be injected,
Until the prey is poisoned or suffocated.
The Indian ringed snake is a nocturnal cold-blooded animal,
Their body temperature changes with nighttime temperatures.
Whenever the temperature drops at night,
Indian ringed snakes will find a warm place to spend.
And people in rural India,
They all have the habit of sleeping on the floor.
It is precisely this habit that gives the Indian ringed snake,
A warm perch is created.
Whenever people fall asleep,
The Indian ringed snake will sneak into the human bed.
Sleeping people don't know it,
At this time, an uninvited guest came to the bed.
And this situation of sleeping with snakes,
It causes humans to roll over in their sleep.
Or when there are other actions,
Inadvertently touching them,
Thus being attacked by them.
And the Indian ring snake has relatively small teeth,
When bitten, there is usually not much pain.
So the victim of the bite does not know,
He was actually fatally attacked by poisonous snakes.
The venom of the Indian ringed snake is a violent neurotoxin,
Through the flow of blood in the body,
Usually within a few hours,
It can destroy the nervous system and respiratory system of the poisoned person.
This leads to the appearance of victims.
Symptoms such as limb paralysis and difficulty breathing.
Even if anti-venom can be injected immediately,
Victims also have less than a 50 percent chance of survival.
So a lot of times rural Indians,
Cases of dying in their sleep are not uncommon.
In particular, children are more likely to die,
And the Indian ring snake is even more used by local rural people,
It is called "Death of the Night".