Slippery water makes the job even more dangerous.
A snake-catching expert received a call from a local resident reporting that a highly dangerous creature, measuring up to 4 meters long, was hiding beneath a drainage pipe near Krabi, located in southern Thailand. After more than an hour of searching, they finally found it.
Catching a giant king cobra in a drainage pipe in Thailand.
The expert had to take the risk of crawling inside the drainage pipe to pull the creature out of its hiding place. It turned out to be a giant king cobra (scientific name: Ophiophagus hannah) – the longest venomous snake in the world (which can grow up to 7 meters).
The water inside the pipe made the task even more difficult, as the snake catcher struggled to hold onto the tail of the king cobra. He lost his grip and had to crawl back into the pipe to catch the highly venomous snake.
This snake weighed up to 15 kg, and according to the staff of Krabi Pitak Pracha – an organization of snake-catching experts, this was the largest snake the group had caught this year. The expert who caught the snake shared:
‘This mission was really challenging due to the cramped space and the water; I couldn’t see the snake clearly, so I had to rely on my instincts. If the snake became agitated, I wouldn’t be able to escape.’
‘Nevertheless, I was very confident in my experience and knew I could catch the snake.’ The snake was released into a forest far from residential areas; the king cobra has been listed as a near-threatened species in the IUCN Red List since 2010.
