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: ...

In these postmodern times, people need something more than elephants standing on barrels and shit to make a circus entertaining; along with the aerialists, snake-charmers and burlesque dancers, we’re ...

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 ...