Frogs of many kinds are plentiful, the brilliant green frogs being especially conspicuous and noisy.
There are snakes and small lizards, but no frogs or toads.
It is stated to live usually in pairs, and to eat rats, birds, frogs, white ants and various insects, and in the north of India it is accused of digging out dead bodies, and several of the native names mean "grave-digger."
Salamanders, toads and frogs are numerous, and crocodiles abound.
Among the inoffensive species are counted the graceful green "tree snake," which pursues frogs, birds and lizards to the topmost branches of the forest; also several species of pythons, the commonest of which is known as the carpet snake.
