Angry King Cobra is given water from a bottle after drought forced it to enter a village!
Given water from a bottle! (Video)
Here’s something you don’t see every day. An intense drought in southern India appears to have made this 12-foot king cobra amenable to a little help from human friends. According to the poster, the cobra wandered into the Kaiga township along the Arabian Sea looking for water. Although King cobras are known for being dangerous, the compassion of the locals for the animal was bigger than their fear. Also, knowing that this type of snake usually tries to avoid confrontation with humans as much as possible, they realized it must have been really thirsty to come to their village.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. So, the wildlife rescue worker bravely began the rescue operation. First, one man took a grip of cobra’s tail to prevent it from attacking the guy with water bottle. The rescuer came in front of the snake and splashed some water on the snake’s head to cool the animal down. Then, he extended the water bottle for cobra to drink from, and the magic happened – it drank! The dehydrated snake drink the water and extended his neck and drank it gladly.
The magic happened!
All while trying to give water to the snake, the man was holding a snake catcher to protect himself in case the cobra decided to launch a vicious attack. Fortunately, everything went well. Wildlife officials say the drought has severely affected wild animals in the region. So when the team of rescue workers found the cobra, the first thing they did was to offer it water. The snake was later taken to an animal care facility. Watch the video, it’s quite impressive!
