King Cobra
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00:00Mr Callum here has been working with snakes since he was 10 years old, for 53 years, so
00:05there's probably no one in the world better equipped to show me how to deal with these
00:08incredible creatures.
00:09Please?
00:16No way.
00:26This is the King Cobra.
00:30At this size, you kind of expect it to be a python, but it's not.
00:37It is the largest venomous snake in the world.
00:43Even though this is a snake with incredible capabilities, you can see that all it really
00:50wants to do is escape from danger.
00:55It's first instinct is to flee, to get away, but when it realises that Mr Callum here doesn't
01:03want to let it go, it's putting on a big display to make itself seem larger, make it seem more
01:08threatening.
01:09And it is absolutely, unimaginably vast.
01:12See, this snake is getting on for four metres long, and as it stands up and spreads its ribs
01:21into a hood like the monocle cobra before it, it just looks huge.
01:27His head is the size of my hand, and the fangs are long, thin needles that can inject huge amounts of venom,
01:36even deep into the muscle.
01:38And that's what allows it to work so quickly, and why it is so potentially dangerous to people.
01:43He really is just figuring me out, and just making sure that I keep my distance.
01:48As long as I'm exactly where I am now, I'm safe.
01:52If I got even a few inches closer, he'd be able to bite me.
01:59Okay, what I'd really like to do is to show you a praise-eye view of the king cobra up close.
02:06Thanks, Giles.
02:07Is that running?
02:11Yeah.
02:12A snake this big can almost stand up and look me in the eye.
02:16They can hold a third of their body length off the ground, which means that 18 foot long snake can stand up six feet.
02:24That's as tall as me.
02:25You see that tongue flicking out, tasting me on the air.
02:30He's looking a little bit at his reflection in the camera, and a little bit at me.
02:34See the intelligence of this snake.
02:37He's not looking at the camera, because that's an inanimate object.
02:42He's more focused looking down the camera, down my arm, and at me, because he knows that that's the thing he might have to bite.
02:53Though this is one of the most frightening animals in the world, and nothing gives you quite the same degree of fear and tension as a king cobra.
03:04It is also an animal that is so regal, so majestic.
03:10I mean, you can see why they called it the king.
03:15The king cobra, the most magnificent regal snake in the world.
03:19But it's going on my list because it's the ultimate killer of other snakes.
03:24Utterly magnificent.
03:34hole, the most magnificent.
03:37Tie the bone is bigger than the animals.
03:39Hold on my heart and keep the body standing.
03:40And it's the main of the sea.
03:41It's the main of the sea.
03:43It's the main of the sea.
03:44It's the main of the sea.
03:45The main of the sea is the one.
03:47Down the sea.
03:48What you think is the man who's looking around and racial with the buscar.
03:50Clean?
03:51Well, there are waves of water, and there's a lot of water.
03:53I'm probably trying to get more water than you.
03:55Here, you can see the river.
03:57The second place is that the land of the sea.
03:59It's the main of the sea.
03:59The third place is the many of the sea.