Scientific description of Cerastes Species. " Kerastes" is a Greek word and rare snake found North Africa.
Kerastes (Greek); Ceristalis, Cristalis, Sirtalis, Tristalis (corrupted from unique Latin Cerastes); Cerust (Arabian); Schephiphon (Hebrew); En Geburnte Schlang (German); Ceraste, Serpent Cornu (French), Horned Serpent (English).
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Feature of Cerastes- The Cerastes, "horned", is one of the many snakes born from the blood of Medusa withinside the Libyan desert. It gets a passing point out in Lucan's catalogue of snakes. Another cerastes referred to via way of means of Theophrastus and Pliny, withinside the shape of a -horned herbivorous worm, is manifestly a caterpillar.
- No greater than 2 cubits ( approximately a meter) long, the cerastes is sandy- coloured and white, with crimson streaks throughout its returned . The pores and skin may be very smooth and stretchable. On the pinnacle are , four, or 8 horns, defined as worm-like or ram-like. The fangs are like the ones of a viper and aren't crooked. Instead of a backbone, a cerastes has a cartilaginous spine, making it the maximum bendy of all snakes.
- The horns of a cerastes have documented functions. They are used as lures to draw birds, with the snake buried below the sand with best the horns protruding. Horned snakes also can be observed guarding wild pepper vegetation in Arabia, and that they use their horns to gore and kill people. To harvest the pepper, hearthplace need to be set to burn out the cerastes, blackening the pepper as a result.
- It is stated that Helen of Troy, at the same time as eloping with Paris, stepped on a cerastes' returned and broke it. This is why they pass in this kind of sinuous, crooked fashion, inflicting their scales to rustle as they go.
- No different snake can bear thirst so long as the cerastes. They seldom or in no way drink. As for reproduction, they carry forth stay young. They are solitary and competitive toward humans, however the Psilli of Libya stay in concord with them. If one of the Psilli is gently bitten they spit at the chunk to heal it. A more potent chunk calls for antivenin made via way of means of gargling water and spitting it right into a pot for the sufferer to drink. The maximum excessive instances are cured via way of means of mendacity bare upon the similarly bare sufferer.
- Cerastes bites purpose necrosis, priapism, madness, dimness of sight, scabs, sharp ache just like the pricking of needles, and inevitable dying inside 9 days. Topsell recommends reducing off troubled flesh to the bone or outright amputation. The wound ought to then be dressed with goat dung and vinegar or garlic, or barley-meal, or cedar, rue, or nep juice, or in any other case salt, honey, or pitch. Daffodil, rue, radish-seed, cumin, wine, castoreum, calamint, and emetics ought to be imbibed.
- The cerastes is the namesake of the Saharan horned viper Cerastes cerastes. The viper's knack for sidewinding appears an apparent forerunner to the cerastes' flexibility.
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