Kid out playing finds almost 4 meter long King Cobra - serpent was after rats and chicks

[webfact]

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Thai Rath reported that snakecatchers were called to an area by a mosque in Betong, Yala province after a young child saw a King Cobra.

 

It was successfully caught and was a 3.8 meter long specimen.

 

It was thought that the snake came from some more natural area away from houses and was attracted by a meal of rats or chicks. 

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Yanisa, 11, was out playing with friends when she said she heard rustling.

 

On turning she was aghast to see such a large snake and immediately got some adults to investigate and call for rescue. 

 

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[HighPriority]

"...after rats and chicks"

Arent we all... ????

[jacko45k]

Plucky guy.... doubt I would try and catch it!

[Colabamumbai]

Sleazy, slippery chicks or just chicks. 

[pacovl46]

Highly unlikely that it was after rats and chickens. Ophiophagus Hannah, the Latin name of the king cobra, translates literally to snake eater because that's what they normally eat. 

[FarAway]

Nice catch.

And nice to see that in the Muslim parts of the country the people stopped this mask nonsense already.

 

Can say what you want about the Muslims, but they are not that easily buying into state propaganda as other Thais.

[hotchilli]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

It was thought that the snake came from some more natural area away from houses and was attracted by a meal of rats or chicks.

I thought a King Cobra diet was other snakes?

[pacovl46]

51 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

I thought a King Cobra diet was other snakes?

You thought right. It's possible to trick captive king cobras into eating chicken and rats, though, but only if you take a snake and rub the chicken or rat on it to throw the snake off the chicken/rat scent, which is what people who keep king cobras as pets do, if they don't have snakes at their disposal. But they will grow much faster, if you feed them snakes.

 

King cobras are awesome and extremely intelligent animals, that can become very docile and non-aggressive, if you get them when they're still really young and they never make a bad experience with you. It will take a year or two, though, before they relax because they're quite aggressive when they're young, due to the fact that they're prayed upon in the wild when they're still small.

 

Tyler Nolan on YouTube got one about two years ago now when it was still a baby. It was quite defensive when it was still little, now it doesn't even hood up anymore when he takes it out of its cage because it learned that he's no threat to it. It's quite the sight to be honest. His snake is now 3 meters/10 feet long, but he's been feeding it only lizards in the beginning and as soon as it was big enough for snakes he started feeding it snakes. Awesome snake that one!

[Tropposurfer]

6 hours ago, FarAway said:

Nice catch.

And nice to see that in the Muslim parts of the country the people stopped this mask nonsense already.

 

Can say what you want about the Muslims, but they are not that easily buying into state propaganda as other Thais.

Yay ... QAnon rocks!!! ????????????

[FarAway]

6 hours ago, Tropposurfer said:

Yay ... QAnon rocks!!! ????????????

QAnon is a PsyOp, Trump is an idiot.

No idea how people like you always jump into conclusions like that. I guess pigeonholing is more easy than arguing with people rationally.

[jacko45k]

On 10/29/2022 at 2:47 AM, FarAway said:

Nice catch.

And nice to see that in the Muslim parts of the country the people stopped this mask nonsense already.

 

Can say what you want about the Muslims, but they are not that easily buying into state propaganda as other Thais.

And this relates to catching snakes how exactly!

No commentary about how Muslims force women to cover their hair and sometimes their faces with no health benefits whatsoever?

[Boomer6969]

24 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

And this relates to catching snakes how exactly!

The snake doesn't wear a mask.