It was an hour earlier than the autumn of the nightfall. We have been driving again home via picturesque hilly tracts embellished with evergreen forest of the Western Ghats. Except for too many curves and bends that the motive force needed to negotiate, it, in any other case, was a nice night to drive again home.
We had traversed, on account of labor, many occasions via this route. So, being acquainted with the panorama and the ecosystem, I used to be engrossed in studying a e book I had carried for the journey. It was solely when the car was abruptly halted I got here again to my senses.
I regarded on the driver assuming {that a} wild animal had crossed the highway. He was squinting to see one thing via the window. I couldn’t work out what was he so keenly observing. Seeing my frustration, he gestured to me to be quiet and pointed his finger in the direction of a milestone positioned about 50 metres from the place he had stopped the car.
An enormous snake had coiled across the milestone in defence, whereas an eagle was pricking it with its onerous beak to loosen the grip to kill it. Each time the chook flew right down to assault, the counter-attack of the snake was to whip the chook with its tail. But the chook would by some means handle a prick; neither gave the impression to be giving up simply.
We couldn’t imagine our eyes being witness to such a spectacular artwork of nature. We have been blissful that the night had turned out to be an enthralling one in the course of a jungle.
We acquired off the jeep and went tiptoeing to look at from behind a tree, near the scene. No sooner did we get nearer to the tree than the eagle gave out a “scream call”. Perhaps, it sensed our presence; in spite of everything, an eagle eye has all of the minute particulars. We slowly returned to the jeep with out dropping sight of the motion.
By now, we have been in a position to sense the doable climax because the snake had misplaced its luck to outlive the day. It had change into too feeble waging a dropping battle. Perhaps that’s how the rule of nature is dictated: a better-endowed animal wins as there isn’t a runner-up on this race of the survival of the fittest. As anticipated, the eagle over powered the snake by mercilessly attacking its head. Now, it was time for it to drag it off the milestone.
The chook sat near the stone and pulled the snake with all its may, one final time, with out tearing it aside. The snake fell down and was instinctively making an attempt to slither. We may see its tail nonetheless transferring a bit. It was not useless, however was almost there.
When the chook held the snake firmly in its beak and was all set to fly away, the useless reptile appeared, hanging down the mouth, like a garland being taken to honour the setting solar down the horizon.
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