The classic image of a snake rising from a basket as a charmer plays a flute is a long-standing misconception. Snakes do not have external ears and cannot hear airborne music the way humans do. They sense vibrations through the ground and their jaws. The movement that looks like dancing is mainly the snake responding to the charmer's swaying motion and to the flute's movement, which the snake tracks as a threat or target. The snake is reacting to visual motion and vibration, not following a tune. Snake charming is therefore a performance built on misperception of how snakes sense the world.

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Angkor, near Siem Reap in northern Cambodia, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of mainland Southeast Asia between roughly the 9th and 15th centuries. At its height the city spread across about 3,000 square kilometres, making it the largest pre-industrial city on Earth by area. Its growth depended on water: huge reservoirs called barays, along with canals and embankments, stored monsoon rain and carried it to rice fields. That system let farmers harvest more than once a year and fed a very large population through the dry season. The temple complex of Angkor Wat, built in the early 12th century, is the best-known monument and still stands at the heart of the park.