Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tight baskets, glaring lights, and crowds: The conditions during snake charming are far from suitable for the animals. Photo: ...

As a San Francisco transplant in Landers, CA, Danielle Wall didn’t exactly plan to become the High Desert’s go-to snake wrangler. But one encounter with a rattlesnake in the middle of the road — ...

A group of snake charmers threatened to release cobras and pythons in the Legislature of the Indian state of Orissa if authorities prevented them from holding roadside shows. Wildlife protection ...

Tourists from Morocco and India are familiar with such scenes: A snake charmer plays the flute, a cobra rises from its basket and seems to move to the rhythm of the music. But do snakes really dance ...