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SIFY (Delhi, India) 11 January 05 Cobra kills seven cows
Theni, Tamil Nadu: A cobra, which was living with several rattle snakes, had claimed the lives of seven cows in a farm house at Kandamanur in this district in the last two days.
According to Kesavan, owner of a dairy, when two cows died on Sunday he thought it could be due to some disease. But the postmortem report revealed that the cows were bitten by snakes, he said.
Kesavan said he had seen three snakes, including an eight-feet long Cobra in the farm. But I was advised by local people not to kill the snake as it was the God who was protecting the farm. I had taken even pictures of the snake for worshipping and never expected it will kill my cattle, he said.
Kesavan said later five more cows were bitten to death by the cobra. He then sought the help the snake charmers to net the the snakes.
Though an insurance company had paid the money for the loss of the cows, I feel guilty for having been responsible for the death of seven cows, which is also a holy animal, he said.
Cobra kills seven cows

>> Theni, Tamil Nadu: A cobra, which was living with several rattle snakes...

Rattlesnakes in India? Am I missing something?

They certainly smoke some good "stuff" in India.

Al
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Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Snattlerakes is ever'whar. I about swallowed my bubblegum as well, man. We're both missin' somethin', but not as much as the reporter or his sources.

~~Greg~~

To be fair, I can can think of two fairly reasonable explanations for this.
1) Rattlesnake is the local name for some snake that does the tail-buzzing trick like a pine snake or a rat snake.
2) This was probably translated from Hindi by some guy with a translation dictionary and too much work to do, and so "viper" got translated as "rattlesnake".

My money is on number two...