Varanasi also known as Banaras is the oldest living City in the world. Ghats in Varanasi are riverfront steps leading to the banks of the River Ganges. The city has 88 ghats. Most of the ghats are for bathing and puja ceremony, while two ghats are used exclusively as cremation sites.

Green Bee Eater

Chital deer

Indian Russell's Viper is known by a number of other names, like Daboia, Tic Polonga, etc. A highly poisonous snake of the Viperidae family, it is scientifically known as Vipera russelli. Russell's viper is responsible for most of the snakebite deaths within its habitat. It is light brown in color and is covered with three rows of dark brown or black splotches, bordered with white or yellow.... Characteristics Russell's Viper is responsible for the more deaths due to snakebite than any other venomous snake. It is highly irritable and when threatened, coils tightly, hisses, and strikes with a lightning speed. Its hemotoxic venom is a very potent coagulant, which damages tissue as well as blood cells.

Shrike birds from the family of Laniidae are also known as butcherbirds because of their feeding habits, There are 10 shrike species found in India. The Shrike birds are known for their way of eating lizards by impaling their bodies on thorns.

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