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Why did the Indians at one time intensively breed cobras, and then abruptly stopped?

Once, during the colonial occupation in India, the British decided to reduce the number of breeding cobras, for which they announced a reward for their heads. The local population rushed to destroy the snakes, thereby reducing their number, but then, on the contrary, switched to breeding them for easy money. After the abolition of rewards, the remaining cobras were released into the wild, contributing to the fact that the snake population only increased compared to its original value. Since then, the term "cobra effect" has been attached to any action aimed at solving a problem, but as a result worsening it.

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