In the centre is the administrative building which is a one storey cottage having on the ground floor a small office which doubles up as reception area, a room which holds the display exhibits like the king cobra, python etc., a store room and a toilet.

On my last day at the Park, I was allowed to handle a cobra.

I held a stick under the neck of the cobra and then lifted it by its tail.

I did this about 2-3 times after which the cobra was put back in its box.

The poisonous Big Four are (1) the Cobra, (2) the Krait, (3) the Russel's Viper, and (4) the Saw-Scaled Viper.

Its venom is about four times more toxic than that of the Cobra.

The most poisonous snakes in the world include some sea-snakes which have venom 5 times more toxic than the Cobra.

At the park, we found pythons, Russel's vipers, kraits, chequered keelbacks, boas, ratsnakes and a king cobra, all in glass cages.

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"I tried to show him how he could get a good snapshot, and now he's as poisonous as a red-necked cobra just because he was silly enough to skin his shins.

In one hand he holds a citron and in the other the head of a cobra, which is twisted around his arm and is reaching towards his face.

In Hindu fables the cobra is the ingenious and intelligent animal, corresponding to the fox in ours.

They live, they breathe; the cow, the rabbits, the cobra, the judge, the roach, the baby.

FORBES, COSMO, pseud. Where the cobra sings, by Cosmo Forbes, pseud. of Harry Sinclair Drago & Val Lewton.

R108211, 2Mar53, Smith Ely Jelliffe Trust, Carel Goldschmidt, Trustee (PWH) HOLMAN, RUSSELL, joint author Cobra.

Or did you say 'cobra'?

Of course I know what a cobra isit's a snake.

* COBRA DI CAPELLOHOODED SNAKE.

There are several varieties of this venomous serpent, differing in point of colour; and the aspic of Egypt, with which Cleopatra destroyed herself, is said to be a very near ally to this species; but the true cobra is entirely confined to India.

The Indian mangouste is described to be the most deadly enemy of the cobra di capello, and the battles between them have been frequently described.

The bite of the cobra di capello is not so immediately fatal as is commonly supposed; fowls have been known to live two days after being bitten, though they frequently die within half an hour.

Though the cobra is so deadly when under excitement, it is, nevertheless, astonishing to see how readily it is appeased, even in the highest state of exasperation, and this merely by the droning music with which its exhibitors seem to charm it.

[Illustration: COBRA DI CAPELLO.]

Many of the wild beasts of India, like the frightful cobra, often show great tenacity in attacking those from whom they have received injury.

"So, it is Monsieur Müller who has done me this service," he said coldly; but with a flash in his eye like the sudden glint in the eye of a cobra di capello.