Posted on 07/12/2020 6:56:32 PM PDT by Rebelbase
I al.ost ran over one that big ,coming down out of Khao Yai Nt’l Park in Thailand once. I will never forget how it looked at us , thru the closed windows of our car. I was the driver, not a Thai.
This one is kind of small. The one we encountered was much longer
True story, I live in Washington State. Back in the early 1980's I was traveling back to the East Coast (New York) via automobile. So my first stop to take the dog for a walk, was in eastern Washington state.
So, as I walking the dog, I'm seeing all of the little signs (approx. 4" in. X maybe 5 or 6 " inches long.) approx 4 to 6 inches above the ground. Without reading them, at first I'm thinking they don't want you to walk your dog over here, so I go over there, same thing. So, I thinking, hey my dog has got to go hell with it. So I'm letting the dog do it's thing, and I decided to read the sign, expecting it to say something like don't walk your dog here.
What's the sign(s) really say, WATCH OUT FOR SIDE WINDER RATTLE SNAKES, I almost had a heart attack, picked up my dog, ran for the car, both eye's WIDE OPEN, looking for snakes.
I respect the wildlife.
Yes but does wildlife respect you?
Lol
It usually doesn’t get the chance.
Made me lol!
That helps us survive another day, with or without large cobras.
Good thing he has his COVID muzzle on. Now he’s “protected.”
Venom potency appears inversely proportional to aggression. For example, sea snakes or the Gaboon viper have extremely potent venom, but the snakes is not regarded as aggressive. Gaboon viper according to Wikipedia:
"They are usually very tolerant snakes, even when handled, and rarely bite or hiss, unlike most vipers. However, bites by bad-tempered individuals do occur."
"There have been numerous descriptions of their generally unaggressive nature. Sweeney (1961) wrote they are so docile that they "can be handled as freely as any non-venomous species", although this is absolutely not recommended."
People over there ... appreciate the snakes’ ridding them of zoonotic disease bearing rodents.
On the other hand, they have a Hindu temple rat-worship, where rats are fed and nurtured and allowed to run wild. It must be cobra heaven.
I have a friend who has lots of hots, native and exotic.
He is an expert and super cautious when dealing with them.
He also has big ol’ fat Gaboons.
Generally, they just laid around like beautiful blobs, waiting on their meal handouts.
He once gifted me with a Gaboon shed to make jewelry out of.
I think they look like fat interstates with those ‘passing zone’ dashes on their back.
[he has far more savvy and courage than I have]
:)
ack in the 50s there was a show put on by Skippy’s Peanut Butter that had a film of a religious ceremony involving King Cobras at a remote village in India. Seems like the village had no boy children born for several years and they had to have a virgin call out a King Cobra from its cave and kiss it three times on the head. I saw this and can testify that it was really scary to watch. The young girl wore some flowing robes and was very agile, but despite the cobra striking out several times, she managed to hypnotize it to the point where the head came down to her level and she made three kisses. I think she was one of a family of sisters and she survived.
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