COMMON KRAIT

COMMON KRAIT:- Highly venomous (Neurotoxic)

Nocturnal; alert and active at night, by day has been found resting in termite monds, rodent burrows, piles of brick and rubble. And even in rolled up carpets. Often found in farms and gardens near water. Eats snakes (Even other kraits). Sometimes, rodent, lizards, and grogs. Male combat observed in January in Chennai, Lays 8-12 eggs in March-may which hatch about 60 days later. The female stays with eggs during incubation. Produces the most potent venom of all our land snakes. One of the big four medically important snakes of India (for which antivenom serum is available). Bites usually happen at night but are not

painful like a cobra or viper bite. There are many records of people asleep on the ground being bitten by this snake. A suspected krait bite must be treated at hospital without any delay.
This snake found most of mainland India. Probably absent in the northeast above Assam and j&k.
Also Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
This snake play a very important role to maintain eco balance system. Although this is a very dangerous and highly venomous snake even we should not kill this snake because of our environment sake.