Signs of rain

In your book, Our Wondrous World (Chapter 9), small boxes at the bottom of the pages tell us how people read signs in nature that the rains are coming.

In Odisha, when the koel bird (the cuckoo) sings, farmers know that the rains are coming. That is when they start planting their seeds.

Ants give a sign too. When you see ants carrying their eggs to higher ground, it is a natural sign that rain is coming soon.

During the monsoon, the rain floods the burrows of snakes, the holes they live in, so the snakes come out. Your book says this is why Nag Panchami is celebrated: to show respect to nature and to reptiles.