Thanks to the help of rescue personnel, a pair of king cobras were safely rescued.
While walking through a field in Phang Nga Province, located in southern Thailand, a farmer named Boonsurb Nakthongkul discovered a pair of king cobras in distress while mating.
Immediately, he called a rescue team to save the two venomous snakes. One of them was about the size of an adult’s wrist, while the other was larger, comparable to an adult’s calf.
In the clip, rescue personnel approached the fence where the pair of king cobras were hanging upside down and grabbed the tail of the male snake. However, the strong snake wriggled free from the man’s grasp and fell to the ground.
The pair of king cobras hanging upside down on the fence.
The rescue personnel had to cut the mesh and detach the snakes from the fence. After freeing the snakes, they placed them in separate bags and released them back into the wild.
The king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is the longest venomous snake in the world, reaching lengths of up to 7 meters. It can detect a moving person from nearly 100 meters away.
When threatened, the king cobra will use its ribs and special muscles in its neck to expand its “hood.” These snakes can also raise their heads approximately one-third of their body length off the ground.
Each bite from a king cobra can deliver up to 7 ml of venom, and this species tends to strike with 3-4 bites. The amount of venom released in a single bite can be fatal to 20 adult humans or kill an adult elephant within a few hours.
