World’s most venomous snake king cobra rescued from a house in Dwarbond

Barak Valley is well known for it’s biodiversity. We often encounter monkeys, macaques and snakes in the remote corners of the Valley. However, this time it was a rarely seen king cobra that caught the eye of locals.

The most venomous snake of the world rarely visits public places and often tries to avoid human habitation. But by a quirk of fate it somehow got near a house in Dwarbond and was later rescued by two research scholars of Assam University as the locals contacted them.

The two scholars Biswajit Singha and Sumit Nath arrived at the spot, captured the snake and then let it free in the wild.

Speaking about the King Cobra, research scholar Sumit Nath told “It is the biggest venomous snake in the world. Just like tiger is the national animal of India in the same way King Cobra is the national reptile of India. It spills neurotoxic venom poisonous enough to kill a full grown elephant in one bite. But it won’t bite easily if we don’t try to harm it.”

“The snake is found in South as well as North East India like Assam and Tripura. The natural prey of King Cobra are other snakes. Sometimes it also eats other King Cobras. That is why it is scientifically known as Ophiophagus Hannah due to it’s cannibalistic tendencies. It rarely dares to step out at public places and tries to avoid human contact at best. It is good that the locals didn’t harm the snake and acted wisely because under the Wildlife Protection Hand, 1972 a person can be jailed for five years for killing it,” he added.