File: India Snake Charmer.jpg
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Roadside Snake Charmer - Agra, India
View gregor_y's mapTaken in (See more photos here)I'm not herpetephobic (or whatever you call "fear of snakes"), but this is pretty much about as close as I wanted to get to this cobra. The snake charmer kept encouraging me to get in closer, impatiently beckoning me with hand gestures and saying, "come here! come here!" I was sitting cross-legged in the dirt, and leaned maybe 2 feet away from the snake to take this shot.
I've heard that these snakes are usually de-fanged, and a friend pointed out that it looks like this one has been blinded, rendering it harmless. If so, that's some pretty cruel treatment. Either way, that's still as close as I wanted to get!!
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| current | 19:46, 7 November 2007 | | 768 × 1,024 (1.03 MB) | Dan Davies (talk | contribs) | http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=31335390&size=o Uploaded on August 4, 2005 by gregor_y http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Roadside Snake Charmer - Agra, India View gregor_y's mapTaken in (See more photos here)I'm not herpetephobi |
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