Jeroen Speybroeck wrote::shock:
Supercool!
Thanks Jeroen!
A good thing in India is that people very rarely voluntarily kill snakes.
People often prefer to have a living cobra in the garden, because it's considered a good sign from the Gods. I personally witnessed this fact in Agumbe, where a Naja naja was hiding inside a house garden and we could repeatedly observe it and finally take it away with the permission of the owners.
But, being more "materialist", one could simply state that this could be due to the fact that many snakes in India are highly venomous, and people "respect" them only for fear reasons...
P.S. This has been my "home" in Agumbe for many days...