Producer: Priyanka Das Editor: Sujata Singh
World Snake Day is celebrated every year on July 16 by wildlife enthusiasts across the world to create awareness about the slithering creatures.
No, it won’t. This is perhaps the most widely-perpetrated myth about snakes. The fact: reptiles can’t digest milk and other dairy products. They are likely to drink milk if they are thirsty or dehydrated.
Again, it won’t. The myth most likely emerged owing to the fact that a snake’s body will continue to writhe for some time after decapitation.
Thanks to Bollywood, you have probably been brought up on the myth that a snake will hunt you down if you kill its partner. Apart from the mating season, snakes like to move around solo. There is no evidence that snakes have some sort of a social bond, intellect or memory to remember human assailants.
They are not. Only a few hundred of the 3,000 snake species are venomous or poisonous, and capable of causing harm to humans.
We might have to thank Bollywood again for perpetuating this myth about snakebites. However, when a snake injects venom into a person’s body, it begins to spread quickly. Sucking removes little of the venom, according to a study in Annals of Emergency Medicine.