8-foot king cobra - is FOUND

oh CRAP batman !! now what ??
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/authorities-search-for-escaped-king-cobra-orlando-area/35072154
This area is not far from my home, maybe 10 miles or so.
Seeing the documentaries on TV about these deadly critters
in their natural habitat, they roam 20 miles just to have something to do.
The snake escaped from an exotic animal rescue center near Orlando.
Some people are so afraid of snakes, they have packed up and LEFT TOWN
until they see the snake either killed or captured. (preferably the former).

Plus - all the rain we have had lately, the snakes and other wildlife are finding
safe havens on higher grounds - which means populated areas !!!

On his YouTube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9-GJIk_1Hk
look at the woods in the background . . . .
that kind of environment goes on for hundreds of acres ......
That snake is gone gone gone..... only to be discovered some day in someones
garage eating the family cat.

and yes, this appears to be the same Mike Kennedy of the TV show, Airplane Repo !!!!

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Their searching a town near me for a cotton mouth that has been spotted a couple of times.

I like Mike Kennedy on the repo show, but i am sorry if said King Cobra showed up in my yard i would have a trophy!

heck cottonmouths are very common where i grew up.

Some of the results are starting to emerge on the noon news today.
Apparently, this snake went missing a few days ago !!!
and Mike is just now getting the cops involved after he couldn't find it.

He could face some VERY stiff fines and possibly put his "sanctuary" on probation.
Mike said that King Cobras really don't like to be around people.
But, Florida is experiencing a tremendous growth explosion and the critters are
being forced into the populated areas . . . just have to wait this one out.
Two schools are close by and they are on "outside lockdown".
LOL hope he can keep his TV job.

As far as the video. Dang! Talk about being force fed. Seems to me it would have been much easier and safer to just have dropped the mice into the can and let it feed on its own. Maybe I'm over thinking it. It's a shame it got loose.

Outdoors,
They are not force fed for all their meals. Normally, a live animal is put into
the cage and the snake (or other critter) eats it when it wants.
That is the way reptiles and other animals get a good dose
of medicine and other vitamins that they need while in captivity to be healthy.

and the snake does not live in a plastic trash can. It is only put in there for
easy handling. Once it is milked or fed the juiced up rat, it is put back into its
(supposedly) secure cage and padlocked.

I am only a couple of miles from the famous Ross Allen's Reptile Institute and
used to visit there often. That is how I know this stuff. LOL not from personal experience.

Wait until it cross breeds with the pythons down there. Then you will have a movie made about it. :lol:

Oh sheesh!!!!

KMixson said:

Wait until it cross breeds with the pythons down there. Then you will have a movie made about it. :lol:

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:lol:
Just hope it's not a pregnant female that eludes capture, that could be bad!

and - 10 years ago, a 13 foot King Cobra escaped and found its way
into a neighbors garage. The homeowner killed it with a shotgun.
These snakes are nocturnal (like to roam at night) . . . .
VERY tense situation to say the least. One bite can kill an elephant.
I was out yesterday cutting my grass and weeds down CLOSE and will
continue today to make as much noise as possible around the house. LOL LOL
Even though it is 10 miles away from me, It may be only about 4 miles
through the woods "as the snake crawls" so the saying goes.
or, is that as the crow flies ? lol

https://www.wftv.com/videos/news/raw-wftv-talks-to-man-who-encountered-cobra/vDZdNj/

Cobra + beer + stick = not a good thing


Mike needs to book more shows for his Airplane Repo !!!

Isn't Florida home to several species of venomous snakes?

You're more likely to be bit by what's already there in greater numbers, which might just happen as people are looking for the cobra :LOL2:

that is quite true..... The Southern States has the diamondback rattle snake,
coral snake, pygmy and ground rattler, cotton mouth, and a few others.
But, being a Native Floridian, I have become used to being in their world.
When I was 30 years old, drunk and stupid, I got bit on the hand by a pygmy
rattler and spent 4 days in the ICU - with the possibility of loosing my hand.
In over 60 years of approaching most of them at one time or another,
NONE of them can raise their spreaded hood, that is as big as a grapefruit,
higher than I am tall . . . and spit in your eye from 10 feet away.
I would find it quite unnerving to come across something so menacing as a
friggin COBRA that is lightening fast on the ground. . . . .
If a cobra can slither at 2mph for extended times, he could be in my front yard
in 2 or 3 hours if he didn't stop and take a break. LOL provided he made it across
the roads it would have to cross. . . . . but, still - - -
There are many non-native critters in Florida that belong somewhere else.
and now, it looks like we may have added one more ....................
and yes, the searchers are also very afraid of being bitten by something else
than the cobra. In our woods, we also have several varieties of hornets, wasps
and bees that can do a number on you in addition to the spiders and snakes.
And apparently, this thing has been missing for a WEEK already !!!
it could be anywhere by now.

It is all over the Central Florida news today !!!!!!!!!!!!

Ha, local news must really be playing it up.

Pretty sure king cobras don't spit though.


Reminds me of the south park with the crocodile hunter. :LOL2: :LOL2:

from the internet:
"Although some cobra species can spit venom, king cobras
are not among them. However, they're still highly venomous.
Measuring between 10 and 15 feet long, king cobras are the
largest venomous snakes in the world.
They live in parts of India, China and Southeast Asia". and now, Florida LOL

ok, knowing they don't spit, I will put away my full face shield (for now). LOL LOL

I seem to recall reading somewhere that they also don't "strike" like the other venomous snakes. Thier fangs are constantly dripping venom, so a strike doesn't really active a venom gland to pump venom into the bite. What I read is that they have to (sort of) chew when they strike, in order to get a good dose of venom into the "victim". May have been a load of B.S., but I really don't know.

Roger

Funny how we learn the most about some of the critters we only see on TV is
after something happens in your back yard. I know quite a bit about the snakes
in the Southeastern US because at one time or another, we do cross paths.
But, the non-native species such as the Python, Monitor Lizard, Iguana, Killer Bees,
and the like, I know absolutely nothing about. But, I am learning because they
are creeping ever more closely to my Homestead !!!!


I think you are thinking of the Coral snake that sort of "chews" its venom into its victim.
The one with multi-colored bands.

Excerpts from LiveScience.com:
Coral snakes have the second-strongest venom of any snake (the black mamba has the most deadly venom)
"New World coral snakes are considered some of the most toxic snakes in
North America because their venom contains powerful neurotoxins,"
unlike most other venomous snakes, the coral snake cannot contract its fangs into its mouth.
Instead, they are constantly out and erect. Their fangs are small and relatively weak.
“One of the most distinctive behavioral characteristics of coral snakes is how they deliver their venom.
Since their fangs are short and fixed, they deliver their venom through chewing motions.”

The king cobra delivers enough neurotoxins to kill an Asian elephant, as well as about 50 percent
of the humans that it bites. Reaching 18 feet in length, the king cobra is also the world's longest venomous snake.
The amount of neurotoxin they can deliver in a single bite, with fangs up to 2" long, can be up to 2 tenths
of a fluid ounce and is enough to kill 20 people. Fortunately, king cobras are shy and
will avoid humans whenever possible, but they are fiercely aggressive when cornered.


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Is it time to Call Samuel L. Jackson yet? :lol:

:LMFAO: Snakes on a Plane :LMFAO:

To All,

What "blows my mind" is that the FL wildlife folks haven't declared that ANYONE can hunt/kill/eat the various reptiles that are everywhere down there now, as NUMEROUS ethnic groups in Asia routinely make snakes of several sorts a part of their daily diet there. ======> The MEO culture, for just one group, eats COBRAS & other venomous snakes & consider them to be a delicacy.
When this "tactic" was suggested by a former SF NCO (who had several years service in RVN & is married to a Meo lady), who is now a FL trooper, the "wildlife experts" listened to the "PETA types"/professional exterminators (who expected to make a windfall for capturing & relocating snakes) & made sure that exotic snake/lizard hunting was NOT opened 12 months a year.
(Listening to people, who know little or nothing about the subject and/or have an ulterior motive OR "who have a huge profit motive", is NOT often a sound plan.)

Note: When Northern VA, DC & suburban MD was "being over-run" with feral pigeons, the "Asian outreach" LE officers "quietly put out the word" that killing pigeons 365 days a year was a lawful means for getting food, the Vietnamese, Laos, Cambodians & other folks started hunting pigeons with crossbows & spears. - Problem SOLVED.

yours, satx