 here learners, now we will see something about snake rescues and also know something about the myths and realities associated with the snakes and also some other reptiles which is very common in Iran. So coming to the first, starting with the snake rescue, you know, snake rescue happens in mainly in two ways, there is some of the wild snakes which they come in the house and they got trapped in the house, they cannot go and there is lot of human try in this way and then another group of snake rescue happen because from the snake charmers, because government of India now banned the charming of the snakes and in that way lot of snakes are still caught and different NGOs and forest department they catch the snake and we get lot of snake from the snake charmers. So coming to the wild snake which go inside our houses, these are the different species of snake, python, red snake, bandit, cobra, kill bed, so of this maximum number in Assam or in Gohati around city, so python is the most important species which get rescued in this way and there are lot of other snakes which are from the snake charmers. So snake charmer, snake consist of those species, so what happen is, we in many NGOs or in other areas what happen whenever there is a rescue from the snake charmers, we generally the people concern they catch the snake and they release the snake, but this should not be done, this should be avoided in the, because the snake charmers used to catch snakes from different areas and they come to North East, suppose in Assam they are displaying snakes, but the snake they caught is actually from Bihar or in West Bengal or in other parts of India, so what happen is, these snakes are not inhabitant of North East India. So in this way if you release this snake which are non native to North East India they will simply die or else they may replace some native species of North East India, so the snake charmer snake should not be released in the wild, so other way the snake which are got into our houses from the wild, we can directly consider releasing them in the wild and also you have seen there are in our newspapers and TV channels, always there is a picture of python rescue and people catching python and showing it and taking photographs, so what happen is their idea is very good, idea is to save this species, save the animal and release it in the wild, but in the process of getting recognition in this way the animal suffer, you can see they tied the snake in this way and they are showing it and somebody pulling it pushing it, so in this way it broke the neck or they get injured and then they are released in the wild then they will not survive, so the basic plan is if you get a snake you should not just show it to all the people and this is the case of novice rescue which should not be done professionally and there are professional like once rescue should always happen with the knowledge of forest department, with the knowledge of other organization who are dealing with rescue and release of the snake and particularly for the python because python is protected species and is protected under wildlife protection act and is a schedule one animal equal to the schedule of tiger, so python should not be handled in this way should not be you know rescued, so it should be done with the forest department, so because it is a schedule one animal, so then snake rescue actually involves so many processes, if there is an injured snake we should not directly go and release it, it should be treated in the zoo or treated in the veterinary office or colleges then when it is fit then we can consider releasing it, then if a snake is fit then we can directly consider it releasing it but there is another criteria for releasing it, if you are getting a snake in gohati you cannot release it in the Debrugar because Debrugar is too far from gohati you should look for a place which is near to gohati and it should be a suitable habitat where the snake the criteria is that that the area you select should be near to the place of rescue and the area you select should have that species earlier and the area you select should have abundance of prey base what snake eat so these are the criteria which makes a successful snake rescue and successful release and in this way it will going to contribute a lot in conservation of snakes coming to snake myths because snakes are the animal which probably has most number of myths associated with it so there are so many myths because probably our knowledge on snake is very much limited and that is the root cause of all these myths because a myth develops when we do not know something and since we do not know about snakes, its ecology, its biology, its lifestyle that is why these myths occur so one of the most famous myth regarding snake is that we say snake suck the milk from the cattle udder snake can drink milk or suck milk but is it possible, if we see this is the tongue of the snake the tongue of the snake is very thin and it is bifurcated but for to suck a milk or to drink milk you need a very wide tongue like what we have, what all the mammals have so snake do not have that kind of tongue so it do not have any suction pressure so how it can suck the milk from the udder this is the simple question so this is false actually snake do not drink milk the question is, snake charmers are the people who create this kind of myths because that helps them in getting money from people so in Nakh Panchami area, time and all they show people that snake actually drinking milk but what happen is they keep the snake for a longer period of time without water and in that particular day they go different houses and they show the snake also they give the milk to the snake and in that because snake was very much thirsty for a long time then just for the water requirement it is actually drinking the milk so in that process people come in to believe that they drink milk then another very common myth about snake is that we believe this is a Bhutan boa and snake charmer say this is having a double head because but actually if we very closely see because what happen is we never see a snake closely so if we see it closely we will not realize that its tail is actually very blunt there is nothing like tail here so it is very blunt and head is also it matches like a head so that is why people say that 6 months it has got head this side this side all this kind of false belief which is wrong and then snake charmers what they do sometime they draw eyes here and also cut a little bit of the tail to make it a mouth and in that process they display to the people so which is false no normal animal can have a double head in this nature so and then another belief is that snake dance with the music so this is as you know this is actually a creek of the snake charmer snake when it is raised up raised up in a threatened posture so then the snake charmer is always moving it the flute in front of the snake creating a kind of sensation for the snake and also he will produce a kind of vibration with his legs on the ground so in that vibration will keep the snake erect and this snake will be following the movement of his flute and in that process he will be dancing so it is not that he is listening the song and dancing but it is the snake which is actually in a threatened posture and following the movement and this kind of thing can be done with any other instrument with the cobra not only flute and then famous we have the most famous film here Nagina a film where they have shown that snake take revenge so if one snake is killed then another snake can come and kill that person which is completely false this is actually only a film it is a thought and which is not true scientifically because no animal, no snake comes and take revenge and there is nothing like never stay male and female stay together for a long time and it is false because only in the mating time male and female snake come into being and then they go apart again so this is also again a misbelief what happens is sometime you know in the mating season where there are plenty of snakes available like in places in Nagaland and all these forest areas so what happens is they secrete a kind of substance which is known as pheromone so that pheromone might be a reason where when you kill a snake then that pheromone glance rashes and there are lot of pheromones around and with that pheromone then some other snake might be coming but this is a normal process with the scent of pheromone a lot of it is natural that other snake will come around if it is nearby so that is probably is the root cause of this that snake take revenge so with this we came to an end of the snake myth and also a portion on snake rescue