Before you go and get all emotional and shed tears of joy, be advised that the snake doesn’t actually cry.The species, a keelback,has been so named because of a dark spot under its eyes that looks like a tear drop.The ‘crying’ keelback was discovered by JayadityaPurkayastha, a Guwahati-based zoologist in the Basar area of the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.Work continues on many new species of amphibians and reptiles and hope to conduct the research published by the middle of this year. The crying keelback had to be compared with 44 species of snakes worldwide
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