Describe the cobra in the story adventures in a banyan tree?
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Answer:
The boy spent his afternoons on the banyan tree, reading a book. The cobra whipped his head back and struck with great force, his snout thudding against the crow's body. The mongoose grimly held on to the snake until it had ceased to struggle and dragged the snake into the bushes.
Explanation:
The fight of the cobra and the mongoose is a classic drama often seen in India and the outcome is largely the same . The mongoose is not immune to the venomous bite . The cobra assumes a posture of defense and attempts to reach the animal by a sweeping strike . But the quick-moving mongoose jumps out of reach and comes at the snake from another direction before the snake can get into striking position again .
This constant movement tires and discourages the snake and the mongoose is finally able to leap in close and bury its teeth in the snake's neck usually severing the joints of its vertebrae . You must have seen a banyan tree . This is a story about what the author saw as a young boy when he was sitting in an old banyan tree in his grandfather's house . The tree was older than the house , older than Grandfather , as old as Dehra Dun itself .
In the spring , when the banyan tree was full of small red figs , birds of all kinds would flock into its branches - the red-bottomed bulbul , cheerful and greedy , parrots , myna and crows squabbling with one another . During the fig season , the banyan tree was the noisiest place in the garden . Halfway up the tree I had built a crude platform where I would spend the afternoons when it was not too hot . I could read there propping myself up against the tree with a cushion from the living room .
Treasure Island , Huckleberry Finn and The Story of Dr Do Little were some of the books that made up my banyan tree library . I was feeling drowsy myself , wondering if I should go to the pond and have a swim with Ramu and the buffaloes when I saw a huge black cobra gliding out of a clump of cactus . At the same time a mongoose emerged from the bushes and went straight for the cobra . In a clearing beneath the banyan tree ,in bright sunshine , they came face to face .
The cobra knew only too well that the gray mongoose , three feet long , was a superb fighter , clever and aggressive . But the cobra too was a skilful and experienced fighter . The mongoose bushed his tail . Though the combatants were unaware of my presence in the tree , they were soon made aware of the arrival of two other spectators .
One was a myna , the other a jungle crow . The cobra stood on the defensive swaying slowly from side to side ,trying to mesmerize the mongoose into making a false move . But the mongoose knew the power of his opponent's glassy unwinking eyes and refused to meet them . Instead he fixed his gaze at a point just below the cobra's hood and opened the attack .
Moving forward quickly until he was just within the cobra's reach , the mongoose made a pretended move to one side . Immediately the cobra struck . His great hood came down so swiftly that I thought nothing could save the mongoose . But the little fellow jumped neatly to one side and darted in as swiftly as the cobra biting the snake on the back and darting away again out of reach .
At the same moment that the cobra struck , the crow and the myna hurled themselves at him only to collide heavily in mid-air . A few drops of blood glistened on the cobra's back . The cobra struck and missed . Again the mongoose sprang aside jumped in and bit .
The myna flew on and reached its perch . In the second that it took the bird to do this the cobra whipped his head back and struck with great force , his snout thudding against the crow's body . The cobra was weakening and the mongoose , walking fearlessly up to it ,raised himself on his short legs and with a lightning snap had the big snake by the snout . The cobra writhed and lashed about in a frightening manner and even coiled itself about the mongoose , but to no avail .
The myna dropped cautiously to the ground , hopped about , peered into the bushes from a safe distance and then with a shrill cry of congratulation , flew away .
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