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In urban areas people are more aware about how to deal with a snake sighting like calling the right people to catch it and snake population in urban areas has come down,” he said.Environmentalists agree that snake population has come down due to multiple factors. “Often snakes in urban areas could be found in sewers and drains, because they preferred the damp surface and found it perfect to hunt rats. “Most bites happen outside the urban areas. They seem to be high post rain and during winter,” dean of CMCH Dr B Ashokan said.Snake catcher N Santhosh Kumar said snake bites peak during summer and post-rain. “Post-rain is also dangerous, because drains wash many snakes from other areas into houses,” he added.The dean said 70% of the bites in the recent years have come from rural areas..