r/BeAmazed • u/Electronic-Bus-3494 • 4d ago
Miscellaneous / Others Human helps a king cobra beat the heat in India.
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u/KittyHalfEyes 4d ago
From Sri Lanka. We used to have a cobra come to our house for eggs. He come sit on the front porch until he get a egg and then he go. This was went on for years. My grand dad started it apparently. He dos hisss at the kids who try to touch. But never bit anyone.
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u/Gustacq 4d ago
He's just the tax collector for living on the snakes territory.
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u/mikki1time 4d ago
And I thought my landlord was the snake.
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u/Squirrelated 4d ago
Jokes on you, that snake offers rentals as cheap as an egg.
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u/PatrickKn12 4d ago
An egg a day keeps the landlord away
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u/TheProblemChiled 4d ago
Instructions unclear, I egged my landlord
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u/A-Good-Weather-Man 4d ago
I Thought My Landlord Was a Snake!
New anime coming soon.
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u/SuperChoopieBoopies 4d ago
I love the idea of a lil snek coming for a visit with a wee hat and cloak like this
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u/FalxIdol 4d ago
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u/Hmmm-strange 4d ago
That's incredible. Never knew they could be like that.
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u/perseidot 4d ago
I’ve never seen that body language from a snake before. It deliberately turned the dangerous part of itself away from the man with the water, while staying upright.
Couldn’t have said more clearly that it wasn’t going to strike and would appreciate more water, please.
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u/100percentnotaqu 4d ago
Cobras are pretty clever from what I've heard, and try to give ample warning before they strike.
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u/friendlyfiend07 4d ago
You fed him eggs and he ate all the other snakes you would have to worry about. Seems like a great trade.
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u/OldeFortran77 4d ago
I was wondering about this. How does the snake get to thinking "hey buddy, how about some of that cool water over here?" but I suppose the people appreciate the snake eating the local vermin and everybody just settled into this scenario.
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u/nightpanda893 4d ago
I think a lot of times when they are exhausted/starving/dehydrated they don’t have the energy to be as aggressive as they may normally be. Also most of these animals are trying to avoid conflict with bigger creatures. Just cause they can bite someone doesn’t mean they want to be in a situation where they have to and possibly be injured.
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u/Complete-Absurdist 4d ago edited 4d ago
I appreciate this. I think that there is a stewardship and a duty of care to nature that we have lost as humans, over time. It’s important to remember that despite the complexity of human society, we are not separated from it. In the Australian Aboriginal Dreaming, we have always been stewards and custodians, not owners of the environment. We need to remember how to live in tandem with other species who share this world while also understanding our place in it to protect ourselves within it.
Edit: grammar
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u/Narrow_Ad_1494 4d ago
yeah but what if a ceo needs a third mega boat.
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u/elephant_ndovu 4d ago
Or a hyper car he will never drive and will collect dust in his garage
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u/CuriousButNotJewish 4d ago
no need to go to CEOs, watch people buy houses because "this is what was available" and then nuke the environment, cut all the fruit trees, kill all the bushes, poison all the wildflowers. Cause hey they own the place, so why wouldn't they be destructive evil shits?
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u/bruclinbrocoli 4d ago
I want to save this and read it to my coworkers. The amount of wast and carelessness we have at our office for our environment is criminal. I tried to advocate for recycling then composting then to stop wasting on perishable napkins or paper towels and have rags then to at least use recycled materials and I got such a weird look. I said, “OK, I’ll make it a challenge to have everyone change a little bit. I’m kinda lost where to continue. They don’t realize why we are surrounded by gators and bugs and swamp ecosystems where we live
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u/D-Skel 4d ago
My old office wasted tons of paper simply because they didn't want to change how they've been operating since the early 2000s. They didn't recycle, either.
So much could have been easily digitized, but no, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" was the response to pretty much any push for changes. I tried to explain how it could save quite a bit of money (which was always tight), but it was like they didn't care at all.
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u/blackgrousey 4d ago
I read this as your grandad hissed at the kids who tried to touch the snake.
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u/mikki1time 4d ago
People underestimate how smart king cobras actually are. They can recognize specific humans.
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u/nybbas 4d ago
It's crazy how chill they are. over 40k people die in india a year from snakes, king cobras only account for like 5 of those, despite being incredibly venemous.
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u/mikki1time 3d ago
They’re smart enough to know what prey looks like. They’re also known for their ability to deliver “dry” bites, that serve more as a warning. Plus they have an intense warning signal, unlike some bush vipers that will strike just because you came too close to their hiding spot.
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u/Occasionalcommentt 4d ago
I remember during in 2021 seeing so much more wildlife around my house. I’ve never seen a bald eagle not at the zoo and saw two on my way to work once. I would see deer run through my front yard. It really got me thinking that maybe with very small changes we could be better stewards.
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u/TinRoofAndRainyDays 4d ago
I remember when bald eagles were down to just a few hundred in the wild. Their rebound has to be one of the most successful conservation measures I've seen.
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u/Occasionalcommentt 4d ago
I am not one impressed by nature frequently (live in the Midwest and not a big nature person) but good god bald eagles will make pause and appreciate this world. They are the coolest things.
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u/Geawiel 4d ago
Grew up in Florida. We had a pair of sandhill cranes that would come by. I can't remember when I started to do it, but I decided to feed them some of our chicken scratch (dried corn mostly).
Over time I got them to where they would eat out of my hand. This went on for a few years. They'd come and do their squawk thing to call for me. I'd come feed them by hand. They eventually brought their baby crane with them.
They'd often hang out in our front yard and chase away any cats that would try to come into the yard.
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u/Wide_Yam4824 4d ago
I’m Brazilian; my grandmother lived in a small town, and the back of her house opened right onto the forest. She used to leave eggs out for the lizards—lizards that were almost the size of caimans, with some reaching two meters in length. There were never any rats or cockroaches in my grandmother’s house. After she passed away, my mother and aunts and uncles inherited the property; they had the backyard cleared of brush and built a wall along the property line, blocking the lizards from entering. Six months after the work was finished, rats appeared in the kitchen. They tore down the wall, put eggs out in the yard just like my grandmother used to, and let the vegetation grow back. We never had a problem with rats in the house again. Nature is the best remedy for nature’s problems.
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u/Tsukiii8 4d ago
My coworker did this at her old house. The snake would protect the birds/keep the mice out and would receive eggs in return🤙🏻
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u/gerstyd 4d ago
I would assume that a bite from a cobra this big would be straight death? Or is there a chance of survival? I know nothing.
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u/Senselesspassion 4d ago
What a calm fellow, patiently waiting to get bathed
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u/tomatoe_cookie 4d ago
Nah king cobras are called "king" because their diet is other snakes. They dont see humans as food afaik
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u/LilaTheMoo 4d ago
Well, it's still incredibly dangerous. Cobras don't attack because they see us as food, they do it because they feel threatened, and a cobra's venom, while not as deadly as some like, say, the black mamba, is still incredibly life threatening and even when properly treated can still result in an amputation of some kind.
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u/HoseNeighbor 4d ago
There's a book valled Soft Child that's a telling of a Native American sstory of how the rattlesnake got it's rattle and venom. It just wanted to mind it's business but would always get beat up by other animals. The creator gave it the rattle so it wouldn't get stepped on and to warn others about the lightning in its fangs. I used to read it to my kid.
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u/Responsible-Low-2937 4d ago
Please tell me you did the double <ss> in “sstory” on purpose!
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u/TheSpeakingScar 4d ago
Bedtime ssstory?
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u/Odin16596 4d ago
What is this from? Seems kinda familiar.
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u/All_Work_All_Play 4d ago
Pretty sure I was read that story as a kid. I couldn't reconcile it with brave little mongoose movie later in elementary school.
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u/HittingSmoke 4d ago
King cobras are some of the most intelligent reptiles you'll come across. They can recognize and get familiar with their handlers. They are incredibly docile and don't attack unprovoked. There will be ample warning before you are bitten by a king cobra and they will attempt to retreat when threatened instead of immediately attacking. If you're bitten by one, you've done something incredibly stupid.
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u/Dandydots 3d ago
Thank you for the intelligent response. I believe most of the animal kingdom don’t want to hurt people, people just put themselves in stupid and dangerous positions. There are exceptions but not many.
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u/fit_for_the_gallows 4d ago
Budd, I'd like to introduce my friend, the black mamba. Black mamba, this is Budd.
You know before I picked that little fella up, I looked him up on the internet. Fascinating creature, the black mamba. Listen to this: "In Africa, the saying goes 'in the bush, an elephant can kill you, a leopard can kill you, and a black mamba can kill you. But only with the black mamba--and this has been true in africa since the dawn of time--is death sure.' Hence its handle--'death incarnate.'"
Pretty cool, huh?
"Its neurotoxic venom is one of nature's most effective poisons, acting on the nervous system causing paralysis. The venom of a black mamba can kill a human being in four hours if, say, bitten on the ankle or the thumb. However, a bite to the face or torso can bring death from paralysis within 20 minutes."
Now you should listen to this, 'cause this concerns you. "The amount of venom that can be delivered from a single bite can be gargantuan." You know I've always liked that word gargantuan? I so rarely have an opportunity to use it in a sentence. "If not treated quickly with anti-venom, ten to fifteen milligrams can be fatal to human beings. However, the black mamba can deliver as much as 100 to 400 milligrams of venom from a single bite."
Now... in these last agonizing minutes of life you have left, let me answer that question you asked earlier more thoroughly. Right at this moment... the biggest "R" I feel is regret. Regret that maybe the greatest warrior I have ever met, met her end at the hands of a bushwhackin', scrub, alkie piece-of-shit like you. That woman deserved better.
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u/theme69 4d ago
Rattlesnakes don’t eat humans but I sure as shit don’t wanna get attacked by one
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u/StThragon 4d ago
king cobras
Kingsnakes, the ones that eat other snakes, are non-venomous and from the Americas. Not king cobras. They are from Asia and are extremely venomous. I used to think as you, but was educated. The bite of a king cobra can kill a human in 30 minutes.
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u/Jaerba 4d ago
They're still correct.
Diet
The king cobra is an apex predator and dominant over all other snakes except large pythons.[32] Its diet consists primarily of other snakes and lizards, including varanids, Indian cobra, banded krait, Oriental rat snake, reticulated pythons, green whip snake, Himalayan keelback, banded wolf snake and Blyth's reticulated snake.[33] It also hunts Malabar pit viper and hump-nosed pit viper by following their odour trails.
'King' in a snake's name is still a de facto designation that it primarily eats other snakes. There's like 1 or 2 exceptions.
Their bite is obviously still deadly but they mostly just leave people alone.
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u/Meanwhile-in-Paris 4d ago
No one worries about being eaten by a cobra. We worry about their venomous bite…
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u/thisbuthat 4d ago edited 3d ago
It's the little pats on the head for me.
"Good snek, there u go fren"
shows ankles, offers palm for a sniff
"No bitey? Okey. Good fren. Lemme jussss-"
pat pat
"More water? Ok fren. Love u fren <3"
Bro's intrusive thoughts won, and in open shoes no less.
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u/nuapadprik 4d ago
In Thailand when they come to your home to remove a Cobra, they take their shoes off,
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u/thisbuthat 4d ago
In many African countries, meanwhile, honey badgers take care of the job
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u/VirtualNaut 4d ago
And you don’t have to worry about them taking their shoes off, since they don’t wear any.
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u/infectedsense 4d ago
I thought he was trying to get snek to lie down in the puddle. Baff time for snek fren :3
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u/Prior_Perception_478 4d ago
Those are safety sandals.
The most safe footwear in the world
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u/Holiday-Training6872 4d ago
You know what they say, open shoes is an open heart
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u/fuzzy_emojic 4d ago
Thankssssssssssssss!
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u/thisrockismyboone 4d ago
.... any time! 😬
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u/AsparagusOk4424 4d ago
"I don't know what happened! One minute the glass was there, and then it was gone. It was like magic!"
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u/Mechs_and_Martinis 3d ago
"There's no such thing as magic!"
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u/SedentorySensor77 4d ago
The touch on the head felt very internal voice compulsion.
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u/JoinAThang 4d ago
(touch it) boop .... (Again) Boop .... (One last to seal it) BOOP
(That's the good stuff)
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u/stinkysulphide 4d ago
Snakes are venerated in Hinduism, Shiva’s neck has a snake too. So he touches the snakes head for a blessing and takes that palm to his eyes and forehead. Thats basically taking the snakes blessing.
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u/These_Ad695 4d ago
That is a huge snake
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u/MelodicallyWindy 4d ago
King Cobras are the longest venomous snakes. Something like 20ft at their longest I think.
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u/theviewfrombelow 4d ago
This seems weird, but do the snake and the guy know each other? They both seem unusually calm, despite the fact that both of them should be afraid of each other.
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u/Defiant_Attitude6767 4d ago
they went to school together, I was their classmate
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u/Winrevair 4d ago
And I was your classmate
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u/Defiant_Attitude6767 4d ago
How are you python, we miss you!
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u/Winrevair 4d ago
Just tryin to beat the heat ya know. Luckily Frank is here to save the day.
Miss you too
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u/Piguss 4d ago
Amazing how two snakes can type with such ease ❤️
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u/kiboglitch 4d ago
It's their tongue, quite handy to type.
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u/EarlyXplorerStuds209 4d ago
They’re slit tongues too. They can type two keys at once!
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u/cvele89 4d ago
You can clearly see that cobra has expanded "chest" at the beginning of the video. They do this as means of scaring their foe, and it also represents their attack posture.
So yeah, I would say the snake felt threatened at first and was getting ready to perform an attack, but it probably realised there is no danger.
Also, bear in mind that snakes and people are kinda used to each other's presence in that part of the world, so they are not really strangers to one another.
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u/theviewfrombelow 4d ago
Yeah. Snake's got his hood open and is definitely posturing. It just doesn't seem too affected.
I think your last sentence hits it on the head. I definitely think the snake has been around other humans, and the guy definitely messes with snakes on the regular. I just wonder if the "bath" is a regular thing that the snake and guy do.
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u/ureallygonnaskthat 4d ago
Having his hood open looks like it would be a good way to dissipate heat as well. More surface area for the water to evaporate from.
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u/FloopsFooglies 4d ago
King cobras are usually not that aggressive or twitchy, they have an interesting pride and confidence to them. I have a lot of respect for them.
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u/Herrvisscher 4d ago
I also have respect for anything that's so much quicker than I am and has venom to boot. I'll be respectful to any guy with a knife also, but from a distance please and thank you.
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u/pr1m347 4d ago
King cobras are chill even though they look intimidating as they're huge. If he try this with viper would get bit for sure.
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u/theviewfrombelow 4d ago
Yeah. That one seems to be especially big for a cobra. Definitely looks well fed.
If the water is somewhat cool, it should help slow the snake down a little as well, being cold blooded and all. I use that trick when I have to rescue snakes from neighbors basement window wells and whatnot. Same with snapping turtles. A little cool water over the body and after a minute or two, they are more calm and you can get them captured easier. Still a little spice, but not as much!!
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u/pr1m347 4d ago
Big for cobra but this is King cobra and they can get bigger than this. Cobras are definitely more aggressive and have to handle more carefully than this.
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u/Hellodie_W 4d ago
I don't think so, it's just that the snake have no reason to attack the man. For the man maybe it's not the first snake he encountered and he saw that this snake was in distress.
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u/PunkSquatchPagan 4d ago
I wonder that too. Captive king cobras can recognize their keepers from strangers.
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u/Accomplished-Bank885 4d ago
Did he.. did he just pet it...
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u/Hoshyro 4d ago
I have a feeling he was testing how responsive the snake was to see if it was doing better
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u/rainbowlolipop 4d ago
He seems to have handled cobras before. He distracts it with his foot and hand to get it to look down then cautiously touches it. If you watch videos of other people doing this they have similar movements.
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u/r007r 4d ago
Ok so if it’s not doing better, he lives, if it’s doing better, he just got bitten by a giant king cobra? There’s gotta be a better test lol
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u/Hoshyro 4d ago
I'm no expert, but I would assume people who live in places where these snakes are common generally know how to handle them.
I'm appreciative of the fact this man deemed this snake in distress and decided to help instead of leaving it to suffer.
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u/MersoNocte 4d ago
I watched it again and I think it was a combination of getting it to to settle down as well as making sure it wasn’t going to spook and strike.
At the start of the video, the snake is hooded which means it’s feeling threatened. You can see he’s tossing water at the snake before he picks up the bucket to pour it — most likely so the snake can understand he’s not a threat and is offering water. The showing the foot and hand was to prompt the snake to reposition so he could safely boop it a few times to lower down and turn. When it’s turned away, he boops it again a few times to make it sure it won’t get startled when he starts pouring the water from behind its POV.
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u/stinkysulphide 4d ago
He took the snakes blessing. Touched it and take the palm to his eyes and forehead. Snakes are venerated in Hinduism
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u/Sora_theSilentDragon 4d ago
I had no idea king cobras were that huge
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u/pr1m347 4d ago
They get even bigger and can raise hood up to 6 feet. So they can actually stand taller than average man and stare down on them. Imagine trekking through western ghats in south India and this snake raises above you.
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u/Key_Signature2296 4d ago
They grow big because their diet consists of other snakes.
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u/pr1m347 4d ago
King cobras are actually less venomous than cobras, kraits. Also they're way more chill than like viper. They very rarely bother with people and are not that aggressive. They often give warning dry bites even when bothered. Vipers on the other hand would fk you up for just existing.
King cobras are the biggest venomous snakes, so they definitely look intimidating.
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u/MadPorcupined 4d ago
Adding to this, the King Cobra is considered the most intelligent snake on the planet. There's some reports that they 'get along' with their handlers, not in a "lets play fetch kinda way", more like a" I wont kill you kinda way". It seems to understand what is a threat and what isn't.
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u/International-Mix633 4d ago
Funny I was literally thinking how the snake seemed mucb kore intelligent than you would assume a snake to be.
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u/Screaming_lambs 4d ago
Was scrolling for this comment. They are usually pretty chilled around humans (or avoid them), like you said, I'd be more concerned about encountering a viper.
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u/Winterfall_0 4d ago
Yeah, it is important to remember that they are called King Cobra because their main diet is other snakes. Not because they are the most venomous of Cobras.
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u/Tehpunisher456 4d ago
The reason they are allegedly so dangerous is due to their sheer size. Sure they might not be the most venemous, but they put a metric fuckton of venom.
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u/pr1m347 4d ago
I'd be more worried about vipers, kraits and cobras than King cobras. They're more venomous and easily spooked than King. See, all of them CAN kill you but King doesn't attack humans almost ever. Its attack rate on humans is negligible compared to others I mentioned.
That said, I'd probably get a heart attack if a 15+ foot King cobra come near me.
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u/badken 4d ago edited 4d ago
Funny story about Tunak Tunak Tun. When I was quite a bit younger, visiting a convenience store, the south asian cashier told me I looked just like Daler Mehndi. I asked who that was and they suggested I look him up online, because he was a big pop star.
And that's how I first came across the song! And I did kind of look like him back then. A lot grayer now though.
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u/smeden87 4d ago
Its a heat wave and bro is walking around in jeans.
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u/SizzleSphinx 4d ago
To be fair there are snakes around
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u/bubbled_pop 4d ago
That purpose is kind of thwarted by him wearing flip flops tho
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u/seethahere 4d ago
How tf did he figure out that "cooling down" is what the cobra wanted in the first place?
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u/humptheedumpthy 4d ago
Trial and error.
First human to try this: Maybe he wants me to scratch his back. Dead.
Second human: Maybe he’s hungry, let me throw some spicy curry at him. Dead
And so on…
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u/IsabellaGalavant 4d ago
There seems to be a water pipe nearby that the man is using to fill the bucket. Probably the snake knows water comes out of there sometimes and was there attempting to find water, and the guy saw it and helped.
I've seen birds attempting to drink from water pipes that were turned off, so no reason a snake couldn't.
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u/MrMansaMusa 4d ago
Do most people in India have some sort of snake senses? Most of them seem really chill around super dangerous snakes... and the snake also seems pretty damn chill.
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u/Altruistic_Elk_2153 4d ago
Depends on the region. Rural people see them every now and then , know their importance in controlling pests .
It also depends on the species. King cobras eat other venomous snakes and don’t bite people that often . King cobras and cobras are sacred in Hinduism , so they are less likely to be killed compared to vipers and other snakes.
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u/MrMansaMusa 4d ago
Thats really cool!! Respect them for making cobra sacred because they really are. Such amazing snakes. Makes sense why the snakes chill if they dont see humans as a threat.
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u/DipSoySauce 4d ago
Not really. My native home is at the base of Western ghats and I'd literally faint if I saw a snake. Maybe, it's just my irrational fear of reptiles
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u/unknownpoltroon 4d ago
I mean, I would rather have the cobra think of me as that buddy who gave him a drink than otherwise
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u/DTDC_Tracking 4d ago
“I’m Nagini doing my ice bucket challenge and I’d like to nominate Ra, Cleopatra and Harry Potter!”
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u/Tbolt65 4d ago
A cobra strike is about as far as it stands tall. Also most cobra bites that kill are accidental. Cobras provide a great service by eating other snakes thereby controlling those numbers.
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u/Recent-Singer8146 4d ago
That’s just what Big Cobra would say…are you a snek? Or just a nope rope?
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u/mikki1time 4d ago
King cobras can only strike downwards, good thing he had his safety slippers on.
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u/serpiccio 4d ago
holy shit I didn't realize cobras could get THAT big
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u/FormFirm 4d ago
The king cobra is the largest venomous snake. It gets 4m although a snake of almost 6m is on record.
They also aren’t technically cobra’s.
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u/Loud_Flatworm_4146 4d ago
Humans just can help but pet the thing, even if it's terrifying to look at.
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u/loaferzz 4d ago
I don't care how experienced you might think you are, that's still a wild animal.
A civil defense force officer in my country was recently bitten by a King Cobra during a public safety demonstration. It was a reptile handling demonstration and he got bit on his finger. He sadly passed away that same night.
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