Rescue of a big deadly venomous King cobra by Ajay Giri in India 

Great to have a comment from somebody living around Agumbe! You are absolutely right, Kings are awesome and very intelligent. They don't want to bite anyone. It would be awesome to film a King on the nest and juveniles when they come out!

@@LivingZoologyIll be happy to get in touch with you if a new nest shows up anytime in the future.

@@fun3721 That would be awesome, thank you so much!

I was almost waiting for the guy to simply pick it up with both hands and carry it, but I think I can see the cobra's point of view, "Hey ... you're seriously disrupting my shopping! And that was MY parking spot! Still, I AM trying to get out of your way! Man ... pushy humans ...."

They are so beautiful ❤️.

Thank you for watching! We agree, he is a very respectful handler.

Exactly as you say. When the handler is calm and experienced, the snake is also calm. This King cobra simply did not want to go into the bag so it took some time.

Thank you so much!!! Yes, King cobras are awesome!

Yes

Thank you for watching! Yes, great job and rescued safely.

King cobras are very intelligent, yes. They are a great example to show people that snakes are not aggressive.

Kings are the wise owls of the snake world

Thank you very much for watching! We will post more videos, don't worry! :)

Yes, we absolutely agree!

Thank you for watching! Yes, Ajay does a great job!

Thank you very much for watching! Check out our long narrated documentary about human-snake conflict in India: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qgcU0CluSpY.html

Thank you for watching this video! Great that you like the way the snake was rescued!

Ajay Giri is the absolute best at what he does.

@@navedalam9333 We agree!

Thank you for watching! King cobras are so awesome, we agree! Check out how King cobra hunts: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--GW7V7CbwRs.html

Thank you very much for watching!!!

Thank you for watching!

Ajay decided to rescue the snake because the crowd was nervous and there were people working in that plantation.

@@LivingZoology now that makes sense. BTW, you guys are awesome! I love your channel.... I've been a long-time subscriber. Keep up the good work!

yeah, but a king cobra aint no tweety pie, and when people are scared they tend to kill whatever theyre scared of.

@@vmunikoti Oh wow, thank you so much! Thank you for writing to us! :)

@@nambc777 Well, people are educated around Agumbe and they know that when they call Ajay he will come and rescue the snake safely :)

Hello Mayur! We are happy that you like this video and the rescue! We met Gowri but did not manage to film anything with him. Maybe next time.

We absolutely agree, perfect rescue, thank you for watching!

Thank you for watching!! 🙏

Yes, confidence and experience is needed! Thanks for watching!

Yes, King cobras are very intelligent. Great that people in India respect this snake!

Actually, he didn't take ANY chances at all. This was about a 9 foot snake, which means his flash range is 4.5 feet - the rule of halfs. A snake can only strike at half it's body length, so as long as you stay outside THAT range, the snake could flash at you ALL DAY LONG, & not reach you - gravity always wins. The OTHER rule he was using is the rule of thirds, which says as long as you stay AWAY from the front 1/3rd of the snake (the business end), & use a hook, he can pull a u-turn on you 10 times, and you can always use the hook to keep his head AWAY from you... You just have to make sure you DON'T hesitate. The second the snake turns back on you, you start guiding it. The other thing he did was with the tail. If you'll notice, every time the snake reared on him, he started at the end of the tail again. Which meant he was farther away from the snake & the snake didn't feel cornered. These snakes only flash you if they feel cornered or threatened. That's why some people have cobras living in their homes & NEVER get bit... The most dangerous part of the whole thing was when he was getting it out of the tree. I would NEVER let a snake just drop on the ground like that. It's like punching a human in the stomach & a lot of times, the snake gets pissed. He probably did it for safety, but I wouldn't, if the snake wasn't alright reactive. Some of us do this AS A JOB, & it's all about the body language. I could teach you the rules in 2 minutes, but if you don't watch how the snake acts, you'll get bit. And hesitation is a BIG thing too. These snakes decide what they are going to do & they COMMIT to it. They aren't scared, because they have fangs. So YOU better be damn ready to commit to something too... They rarely miss what they aim at... The world record for king cobras is around 21 feet, in Thailand. That means he had over 10 feet of strike range 🤯🤦‍♂️🤯... Imagine trying to get that fker out of a tree... Takes at least 2-3 people to keep him from wrapping around your body...

Thank you for watching our video. Ajay has huge amount of experience with King cobras. He is reading their behavior and knows what he can de in different situations. As you write, King cobras are very intelligent and peaceful, they rarely strike. This snake was actually quite defensive for a King cobra. Usually the rescue takes about 30 seconds. In general, Ajay did not do anything dangerous, this is how you handle a King cobra - peacefully, you read the snake's behavior, give it its space, etc. Of course if you do this with a Black mamba you will get into serious trouble. Every snake species behaves differently.

@@LivingZoology You are probably right. As someone who has never handled, let alone seen a King Cobra in the wild, its easy for me to speculate. Thanks for your detailed reply.

@@Completely_Incomplete Very welcome, thank you again for watching our video :)

@@LivingZoology I noticed it was defensive, but it only spun to face him & didn't strike as much as you would expect. That told me it just wanted to get away. The whole tree thing had me worried tho - that's NEVER a good situation... I expected it to come at him after it hit the ground... I told my boss that I would never work with taipans or mambas again. 1 of our mambas went from being tolerant to trying to strike & flash out at us every time someone even slides the door open on her vision cage. It was an overnight change so it's wierd. & I'm NOT about to try to take her out of her cage & make her bite the cup to give us her venom. It isn't worth getting bit when I have 2 kids to raise... 🤦‍♂️🤷🤦‍♂️... NOPE...

Thanks for watching.

We know who he is and we absolutely don't agree with his handling methods.

@@LivingZoology but the way he is treating snake is not so hard like this

@@manuks7871 The way he treats snakes is for show and it stresses snakes a lot. It is disgusting. He lets a cobra regurgitate eggs which it ate, he is playing with snakes for show and gets bitten multiple times. Ajay never got bitten and the snake never tried to bite in this rescue. Simply the fact that Vava gets bitten so often tells you that he is doing things wrong.

We absolutely agree, Ajay works very calmly = Kings are also calm.

Thanks for watching!

You are right, thanks for watching.

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Ajay has huge amount of experience and he solves many tricky situations during rescues. As you write, he is great in handling King cobras gently so they don't start to be very defensive. At the end it is visible that the snake is still pushing its head against the other end of the bag. Ajay knew that and that is why he was leaving the bag opened a bit. The key thing there was to close the bag properly asap before the King returns and it was easier in the way he did it.

@@LivingZoology More to the point, the entire strategy employed was inappropriate given the target, a large king cobra, one that does not seek darkness in attempting to flee, as this snake amply demonstrated. An appropriate capture apparatus would have been, for one example, a large sturdy net, openings smaller than the girth of the intended subject, with a large opening and a constricting device there attached the likes of a snare that could be INSTANTLY CONSTRICTED once the subject had passed. Nonetheless you can stress Ajay's "huge" amount of experience, at the same time failing to consider that (unknown to you) of this writer.

@@geist-0 You are completely wrong that King cobras don't seek dark holes. They do and normally the rescue looks like this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QeFVZ4t6VhU.html This snake was an exception, we already filmed a nice number of Kings and 90 % of them go into the bag in 30 seconds. If there is a way how to safely and easily catch big diurnal snakes into a net, we would love to see it. We work with venomous snakes around the world and we never met someone using nets. For Kings it is easy to use bags, for mambas big buckets, big bag or bucket for a bushmaster, etc. Soon we will hopefully try taipans and other snakes in Australia.

One other great Indian snake rescues once said that a King should be handled using a hook as little as possible .... I think he has a point 😎

@@abocas Every snake is stressed much more when you handle it with hands, we think that we have a point :)

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King cobras keep other snakes away for sure. This snake could stay in the plantation but people were scared of it so it was better to take it away. Of course it was cool that they called a rescuer instead of trying to kill it.

Thank you for watching!

This snake was in the plantation close to people. That's why it was relocated.

@@LivingZoology ok sir.. sorry.. Second time I saw the video with subtitles and now my doubt is clear..you are right... thank you

@@uttarpradeshiya5388 No worries! :)

Not every catch is easy. The snake was in the tree here and that's a very tough situation to handle. In fact the King cobra could stay in the plantation, but locals insisted that Ajay needs to relocate it. You are right that using the same bag for more snakes is not good, but sometimes there is no other option.

King cobras are very intelligent, thanks for watching.

Thank you very much for watching!

We have the answer in this video! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lyyOWVTw8Hw.html

Thanks for watching, not sure what is irritating on this video.

Thank you for watching! :)

Thank you for watching!

King cobras are very shy and bites are super rare. However, if a bite happens, it is a very serious situation. As far as we know there is no antivenom in India so you need to hope for a dry bite.

If someone caught you and released you to a completely new place 100 km away, would you know where to find food, water, shelter??

yes@@LivingZoology

@@lytken 😀😀😀

Yes, they are.

Thank you for watching! This King was quite defensive, they often go into the bag within 30 seconds: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QeFVZ4t6VhU.html

Thank you very much!!! Do you know that this was our second visit of Agumbe? Check out our narrated documentary, where there is the second half dedicated to Agumbe! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qgcU0CluSpY.html

@@LivingZoology 1. I did watched your first video, yes the second half is about agumbe, but I didn't knew the work of agumbe institute at that time. 2. My hometown is Visakhapatnam.

@@sandeepmatta9877 Thanks for watching that documentary! Greetings to Visakhapatnam.

Thank you for watching! We only film real rescues without stunts!

Thank you!

Snakes have their role in the ecosystem. They are both predators and prey. Local people understand their importance and call a snake catcher when they see a venomous species nearby.

Script? 😀😀

Thank you very much! Many greetings from the Czech Republic! ❤️

Difficult to say!

Snakes have their role in nature and should be protected.

Thanks for watching! It happened in Western Ghats.

@@LivingZoology ok

Agumbe, Karnataka State, India

Thank you very much!!! Happy that you like our video. Check out this one also! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qgcU0CluSpY.html

Yes, we heard about him.

No, nothing bad happened to the snake. We have seen them falling down from a tree before naturally and it was fine. Snakes are very strong animals.

Thanks for watching!

Thank you very much for watching!

That's how it is sometimes. Yes, this snake was nervous and did not want to go into the bag.

This was a normal pipe size for a big King cobra, the snake just did not want to go in.

Yes, Ajay does a great job! It is always awesome to accompany him!

King cobras are very shy and bites are super rare. However, if a bite happens, it is a very serious situation. As far as we know there is no antivenom in India so you need to hope for a dry bite.

@@LivingZoology ok

Thank you very much for watching!

It did not bother humans, but it was in the plantation and people were scared that it can come closer to them.

@@LivingZoology Thank you for your response. Its mere presence in the plantation is enough to "bother" the people there to ask for assistance in relocating it. That's what I mean. In other places other than India, thus beautiful animal may have been killed, eaten or both.

It was set well, but the snake did not want to go in. It is a wild animal and does what it wants. Still, this rescue took about 2 minutes to be finished. Usually it is done in 30 seconds.

Ok so why is the video 13 min ... ? Should've made it a 30 sec video 😂

@@Ata_mata You did not notice that most of the video we are just observing the King as it moves in the treetops? :D Ajay was deciding if he should even rescue the snake but locals were scared and wanted him to take the snake somewhere else.

Thanks for the visit! Don't miss other videos about King cobras, for example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--GW7V7CbwRs.html

Thanks @Shaun Oliver ll ! We certainly have tons of travel stories from our quite specific trips focused on finding snakes! 😀🐍

Yes, true! Ajay has huge amount of experience.

Thank you for watching!! Attracting smell does not work well. The best is to let the snake go in thinking it is a hiding spot. But this snake had different opinion and just wanted to move away.

Thank you for watching.

Awesome snake, thanks for watching!

Thank you for watching! Yes, the rescue was very nicely done!

Yes!

It is a medical emergency.

@@LivingZoology I mean does it pain?

It is filmed in the Western Ghats.

@@LivingZoology ok

You obviously know anything about King cobra population in India. Kings are only in Western Ghats, Eastern Ghats and extreme north of India. They are not common.

@@LivingZoology Extreme north? Please explain

@@vishnunair9703 It is probably not correct in terms of geography, sorry. We mean Uttarakhand, border with Nepal, etc.

Thank you very much for watching!

Thanks for watching!

Thank you very much for watching!

As Ajay says at the end of the video, he rescued this King cobra about 2 years before this scene.

Thank you for watching.

Yes, beautiful King cobra! Thank you for watching! :)

Thank you for watching!!! Greetings from the Czech Republic!

Thank you for watching! King cobras are very smart snakes 🐍

Yes, it was awesome to see it move in the tree canopy!

Thank you for watching!

This King was somewhere in the middle, probably a bit more than 3.5 meters.

Ajay is working very gently and calmly. Calm handler = calm snake.

Thank you!

@@LivingZoology kahase ho sir aap

Thank you for watching! Watch this one also for more experience: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QeFVZ4t6VhU.html

This King cobra was quite defensive, usually it takes shorter time to put the snake into the bag.

Happy that you like it!

Yes, thanks a lot! Happy that you like the video.

This was not an easy rescue as the King did not want to go into the bag. Usually it is fast: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QeFVZ4t6VhU.html

I was laughing so hard, honestly. Looked just like me trying to convince a large cat into a small carrier, then 'stuff stuff stuff' on the tail at the end! Fantastic work, incredible animal. The only snake that actually gives the impression of real intelligence and conscious decisionmaking.

Very true!

Indeed! Thank you for watching!

The bag was big enough, but the snake did not want to go in! 😀

Because King cobras hunt only other snakes and monitor lizards. Also in general any snake is a bit stressed during the rescue and does not think about hunting.

Mongooses live in India. Adult King cobra is a top predator, even a mongoose has no chance.

@@LivingZoology a full grown mongoose determined will kill. And necessary bring in the king of battle the honey badger . Death in less than a minute.

@@jesses5774 Probably not, the King is too big. Yes, honey badger has a chance.