THIS King Cobra Is Holding Up Traffic. Then An UNTHINKABLE Surprise Snatches Him Off The Street!
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King cobras have earned their fearsome reputation as a deadly snake whose bite contains enough venom to kill a human. In some cases, people have died less than 30 minutes after the deadly bite, and those who survive have reported that it’s extremely painful to endure and can have long lasting detrimental effects on the human body.
Even more astounding is the fact that their bite is capable of killing huge elephants in mere hours. While king cobras usually prefer to avoid humans, contact with them is inevitable as we encroach more and more on their territory. They can be found all across India and Southeast Asia!
One little, scrappy feisty mammal has absolutely no fear of the deadly king cobra. This mammal is the mongoose! They are very smart, clever and are well known for their ability to fight snakes, particularly cobras, often winning and then eating them whole. Some species of mongoose are resistant to the neurotoxins found in snake venom which makes then a natural predator to the snakes. Basically making the snakes main weaponry obsolete!
In the short footage below a king cobra has found a sunny and relaxing spot to bask in the sun on the warm paved road. The slinky snake has unknowingly stopped traffic and people quickly pull out their phones and cameras to snap pics and film the dangerous creature. Thankfully, in India they are protected and anyone found guilty of killing one can be sentenced up to 6 years in prison, so no one would dare run it over so publicly!
But that doesn’t mean the snakes out of danger because nearby its fiercest enemy lurks. A mongoose spots the snake, sees dinner, and advances towards it with no hesitation. The two battle each other, with the snake striking multiple times and the fast mongoose dodging and weaving his way around the assault. It soon ends and the mongoose emerges as the victor, carrying his cobra off the road with him so he can eat it in privacy.
I would never have thought the mongoose would win, or even be so brave. I guess a little knowledge goes a long way, and hope you learned as much as I did.
Watch the video below and let us know what you think!
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This Is What Happens When You Mix Snake Venom With Human Blood. The Results Is Terrifying!
Snake venom is probably the reason why so many people are scared of the slithering creatures. Our ancestors saw how vicious, painful, and deadly bites from certain ones could be, and that grew into an instinctive fear of all snakes, as well as a healthy desire to stay far away from them. Of all the thousands of different types of snakes in the world, only a select few are truly deadly.
These days venom is seen as medically important, with studies showing that the venom from certain species contains compounds which display anti-tumor and anti-cancer activity. It’s also used to make anti-venom which is used to treat deadly snake bites in humans. As such, it is worth a lot of money, the man in the video says that by the ounce dried venom is worth 10x the amount of pure, solid gold.
The first part of this amazing video shows how venom is extracted from some of the most deadly snakes in the world. The serpents are kept individually in what looks like dark, lidded, clay pots. A handler reaches in using a snake hook, which snags the snake out of their chambers, when it’s time to extract it’s venom type.
He then pins the top part of the snake’s body down so that he can safely grab it by the back of the head and brings it over to a jar. The container has a piece of fabric stretched tight and securely over the top, which the snake bites into, and the handler milks as much out as he can. The venom expelled while it is biting down drips through the cloth and into the jar, then the snake is returned to it’s clap pot.
The second half of the video shows what a Russell’s Pit Viper’s venom does to blood. These vipers are found in Southeast Asia and India and are one of the most lethal snakes known to man. A few drops of the deadly toxin are sucked into a syringe and then dropped into a small cup of blood.
In only a matter of seconds the blood is turned into a thick, coagulated, lump. That is what the Russell’s viper venom does to small animals that it commonly hunts, like mice and rats. When they bite a human, our blood instead becomes very thin and watery, causing it to leak out of every passage and orifice on our bodies.
A person bleeds out through their gums, nose, eyes, ears, mouth, and within 12 hours death sets in. The demonstration is fascinating and now I know why I am scared of snakes.
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This Snake Tries To Eat Her Baby Bunnies. What The Mom Does Next Is So Unexpected!
Nature can be cruel and unforgiving. That is exactly what is on display in this recently uploaded YouTube video. The footage was captured by a man who seems to be looking on a safe distance away alongside his young children and wife. They chose not to interrupt the scene of survival and protection between a wild rabbit and snake. This video may be disturbing to some, especially small children, just so you are aware.
It starts off with a long, black snake coiled up in a shallow rabbit den. The snake has already captured and wrapped itself around one of the tiny baby rabbits and looks to be preparing to kill and swallow it. Before the serpent has a chance, the mother rabbit returns, and she is in full on protection mode.
The sight of her poor, helpless baby bunny in the snake’s clutches brings out her natural instincts and she immediately launches her attack. The stunned snake writhes around and releases it’s hold on the tiny baby, while the other little bunnies use the distraction as a means to escape and fly out of the nest.
It hardly ends there though and the mother continues to chase the snake further away from her babies and the nest. She grabs it with her teeth and claws, then lays down on her side and kicks out at it repetitively, which is what rabbits do when they fight.
Every time the snake escapes her clutches and tries to slither away she pursues, and keeps dealing it a series of blows with her back feet. There is no doubt that she is just as shocked as the snake is, and all the adrenaline, sadness, anger, and emotions she may be experiencing make her react fearlessly. After a minute or two of biting and kicking the snake’s tail, she lets off, and it manages to slither away.
The mother likely wanted to inflict serious injury to the snake so that it would go elsewhere and think twice before trying to eat her babies ever again. She knows that this snake will always pose a threat and it may potentially return to try and harm or kill her defenseless babies. She will have to move her babies and rebuild the nest somewhere else, safer and more protected, but at least she scared the serpent off and saved her family.
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