In India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and other countries have always retained the profession of snake catchers, and the local people who catch snakes mostly or influential snake tricksters are called snake kings. In India, there is a snake king, Wawa Suresh, who often helps the locals catch all kinds of poisonous snakes. Unfortunately, not long ago, the snake king was killed or died after being bitten on the thigh by the 3-meter-long king cobra.
The Indian snake king is dead after being bitten by a king cobra
The 48-year-old Indian snake king, Wawa Suresh, is a well-known snake king in the Indian state of Kerala, who has helped the locals avoid the plight of poisonous snakes thousands of times over the past 20 years, and has also helped thousands of poisonous snakes return to nature, although he has been bitten by poisonous snakes hundreds of times, but he has finally survived. Often walk by the river, which can not get wet shoes. After being bitten by a 3-meter-long king cobra, his life and death are unknown.
A local farmer turned to the Snake King, claiming to have a 3-meter-long king cobra in his cattle shed, hoping that the snake king would help catch the king cobra. When the snake king arrived at the cowshed, he found the 3-meter-long king cobra still in the cowshed. The snake king skillfully grabbed the tail of the king cobra, and when he was ready to put the king cobra into the woven bag, the enraged king cobra began to attack the snake king wildly, resulting in the final bite of the snake king's thigh, and the snake king fell to the ground in pain.
After the injury, the snake king was immediately sent to the nearest private hospital by the locals for treatment, the neurotoxin of the king cobra has left the heart function of the snake king with only 20%, although after the rescue of the hospital, the snake king can also breathe on his own, but the snake king is still in a coma, and the doctor cannot ensure that he can escape this disaster this time.
Secrets of King Cobra Venom
The king cobra is not the most venomous snake in the world, but in front of them are the silver ring snake, the five-step snake and a group of poisonous snakes in Australia, but being bitten by them is really fatal. The venom of the king cobra is a mixture of toxins, consisting of cardiac toxins and neurotoxins, respectively. The venom release of the king cobra is huge, and the amount of poison released by all the venomous snakes in the world can be ranked in the top 5, and the average venom release of the king cobra can reach about 200-500 mg, and only 16 mg can easily kill an adult Ren.
King cobra venom will vary according to the distribution location, generally speaking, the individual venom of the king cobra living in China is generally more toxic than the king cobra living in South Asia such as Southeast Asia and India, living in China The king cobra is 0.34-0.6 mg/kg under the skin, of which the neurotoxin content contained in the venom is about 40%-50%, while the neurotoxin content of the Southeast Asian king cobra is only about 20%-40%. The subcutaneous subcutaneous king cobra individual in India and other South Asian regions is 0.9-1.5 mg/kg, the virulence is second only to the Chinese king cobra, and the average subcutaneous subcutaneous king cobra in Southeast Asia is 1.7-2.5 mg/kg, of which Indonesia is about 1.1 mg/kg subcutaneous. Among them, the smaller the subcutaneous value, the stronger the toxicity.
Why the venom of the king cobra in China is more toxic than in other regions may depend on the amount of food sources. King cobras living in Southeast Asia and South Asia have plenty of food, these areas are generally in the tropics, the local climate is particularly suitable for the growth of snakes, king cobras feed on other snakes, snake resources are abundant so that king cobra hunting is relatively easy, venom does not need to be so strong, and the food resources of king cobras living in China are not so rich, so the venom is stronger to improve their predation success rate.
Not only is the king cobra different in toxicity due to its distribution, but also the saw scale viper distributed in India, which lives in the arid regions of northern India is far more toxic than its counterparts living in southern India, and there are also certain differences in the composition of the venom between the two.
Why would a king cobra break into the human world?
King cobras mainly feed on other snakes, other snakes generally take mice as the main prey objects, and human habitation is particularly easy to attract the arrival of rats, rats to feed, other snakes will come to prey on mice, natural king cobras will follow to prey on other snakes.
The most important reason is the destruction of the natural environment by humans, the destruction of the natural habitat of wild animals, resulting in the survival of wild animals having to choose to live with humans, which will lead to the inability to avoid conflicts between humans and animals.