Education: Did you know"Cerastes "is a rare snake found in North Africa.

             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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