The document discusses the life and traditions of snake charmers, particularly focusing on the practices of the Kalbeliya community in India. It highlights the shift from snake charming to playing musical instruments due to government bans on capturing and entertaining with snakes to protect endangered species. Additionally, it covers the cultural significance of snakes in Indian mythology and the relationship between humans and animals for entertainment and livelihood.

1. A lesson
In
Environmental Studies
For class v
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2. I am Aryanath. I am a snake
charmer. I entertain people with
snakes. I know to play the been and
make the snakes dance. I learnt this
art from my father and grandfather.
Our community is called KALBELIYAS.
My
father
My
grandfathe
r
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3. GRANDFATHER TELLS
When I open the
bamboo basket,
people gather to
e
watch the snakes.
They give me rice,
pulses and food at
the end of the
snake show
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4. OUR OTHER WORK
We not only entertain people
but also give them medicines
after collecting some herbs
from the forests and heal
some of their illness
We know to identify which
snake has bitten the people
We know how to remove the
venom from the body of the
people bitten by snakes
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5. LAW AND BAN
Some people catch the snakes
for their venom; some people
kill the snakes and sell their
skins at high prices
To put an end to these
practices, our Government has
made a law to ban the catching
of snakes and keeping them in
the houses for entertainment
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6. OUR LIFE NOW
Fearing the punishment,
we have left our snake
charmer work and now we
entertain people with our
instruments
We play the instruments:
tumba, been, dhol, Kanjiri
Our party is called ‘been
party
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7. LET’S DISCUSS
The snakes are venomous and dangerous to all;
why does our government ban the act of
capturing and killing the snakes?
The reasons are:
The snakes are endangered animals, i.e. they
are being killed by man everyday that their
number is becoming less. It affects the
equilibrium in nature.
Secondly, our government wants to regularize
the act of selling and buying venom of snakes
for anti venom preparation through recognized
government agencies and not by individual
snake charmers
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8. SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Aryanath, You know all about
snakes, which are poisonous,
which are non-poisonous; what
are fangs in snakes, how to
remove the fangs and you must
go to cities and share this
knowledge with all the children
of your age.
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9. Poisonous snakes in India are :
Russell’s viper, Cobras, Saw-scaled viper and the common Krait.
Daboia / Russell’s Afai / Sawscaled
King cobra viper viper
Bungarus / Krait
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10. The poisonous snakes have fangs
through which the venom is passed
on to the prey.
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11. King Cobra
THE MOST FAMOUS AND MOST
FEARED ONE SNAKE IN INDIA. THE
KING COBRA IS A LARGE AND
POWERFUL SNAKE.KING COBRAS
SKIN IS EITHER OLIVE-GREEN, TAN, OR
BLACK AND IT HAS FAINT, PALE
YELLOW CROSS BANDS DOWN THE
LENGTH OF THE BODY. THE BELLY IS
CREAM OR PALE YELLOW, AND THE
SCALES ARE SMOOTH.PEOPLE TREAT
KING COBRA AS GOD IN INDIA.
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12. NON POISONOUS
SNAKES
Anaconda
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13. SCARE OF SOUTH AMERICA
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14. MAN AND ANIMALS
Man keeps many animals for entertainment.
Name some of them
ANSWER: monkey, dog, dolphins and many
animals in circus.
Let’s watch a video Click on the monkey
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15. ANIMALS FOR AMUSEMENT
We find animals amusing us in
Zoo
Circus
National parks and Sanctuaries
Cinemas
Amusement parks
Road plays
Aquarium
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16. DO YOU LIKE IT?
We don’t like to be caged, then how
can the animals be caged because
man has invented this method to
overpower them?
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17. ANIMALS FOR LIVELIHOOD
Man is directly dependent on animals for food
and also for his livelihood
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18. SURVEY and PROJECT
Make a survey on people and animal relationship:
Name No. of Person Place Food Any Remarks
of the animals looking they are and illness
animal kept after kept Water
Ex: Grass & Foot and Used for
hay mouth
Cow milk
3 farmer shed 30 litres disease
of water
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19. NAGAPANCHAMI
•Hindu mythologies are filled with stories and fables about
snakes, the most important being the Sheshnaga of Lord
Vishnu (it is on this snake that Lord Vishnu reclines while
sleeping in the sea). Thus, it is quite understandable that a
festival called Naga Panchami is observed in India, in the
honor of snakes, every year in the month of August.
•In India, snakes are so revered that temples have also
been erected in their honor. There is a particularly famous
one in Mysore, at a place called Subramania
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23. The cobra is most popular as a source of public amusement. Snake-
charmers use this highly venomous elapid specie to entertain people
in a very odd way. Everything is so strange: the snake-charmer sits
cross-legged playing his flute and the snake in front of him sways to
the sounds in a standing position, ready to bite. But it doesn’t!
Actually, standing is natural to a cobra. Most species can rise to
approximately one third of their body lengths.
standing is the natural defensive posture of the cobra. This is a kind of
warning signal to the enemies. The scientist explains that a cobra that
has been in a basket for a while will rear up its body when the lid is
removed. This is a natural response of the startled snake. Also, the
cobra may spread a hood, another element of the defensive posture,
by spreading its ribs located in the neck under elastic skin.
In a “charming” situation, the cobra seems to be hypnotized by the
pleasant sounds of the flute. Scientists say that cobras cannot hear
the way people do. However, they are very sensitive to vibrations and,
perhaps, are able to feel the music. Indeed, the cobra responds to the
sight rather than to the sound of the flute. What the snake actually
does is matching the movements of the snake charmer.
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