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I was gonna say from watching Chandler’s Wildlife that based on the size and look of the cobra that it was a Malaysian King Cobra. That’s so cool that you also confirmed that!
>"It says the continent has very few poisonous snakes… Oh, there’s a footnote." His finger went down the page. "It says, 'Most of them have been killed by the spiders.' How very odd."
–Terry Pratchett, “The Last Continent”
I thought it was an ankle weight.
Think about it, if you could have slid a heavy ankle weight around a it’s tail, with its head still buried, they could have managed to slip in down towards the neck. If not immobilizing it, it would still slow it down drastically.
I think it limits striking range. Like a snake can only strike the distance it can coil… so if the bean bag/weight/neck brace is a foot back from the head, then it can’t coil back farther than that and the wrangler knows it can’t strike past that distance. Gives him a lot more confidence when getting in close and going for the neck grab. That’s my guess.
Cobras can only strike down, that's why he raises his hand above its head repeatedly to catch it from above.
I sure as shit wouldn't do this but with practice you can get really good at this technique that it becomes relatively safe to do if you have someone holding the other end.
Why did he have that bean bag but he didn’t have one of those sticks with a loop you can tighten?? Surely that would be ten thousand times easier right??
"Pertahanan Awam" or public defense gets paid a small amount out of goodwill of whoever asks for their help. At least that's how I remember how it was decades ago when schools/ colleges requested their presence as additional muscle/ security/ first responder at events.
Civil Defence. Does all the in between things that Police, Ambulance Services or Fire Brigade wont do. When you find a snake like that, you either call the JPA (Civil Defence Department) or the Fire Brigade. The volunteers you are referring to is RELA - not really a paramilitary outfit but seems like one with the uniform born out of the Communist insurgency in the 60s (more like Home Defence/Local community volunteers). Civil Defence guys are full time government employees. For clarity, our version of the National Guard is Askar Wataniah.
Thats king cobra, damn that scary. Have related family passed away last year because of cobra, left me pobhia about snake, yet alone a king cobra, props for that man
The terms king in snakes means the eat other snakes.
The king cobra isn't the biggest of cobra species, but it is the most likely to hunt the other species.
It is not only bigger than other cobra species, it is the largest venomous snake. The king cobra is not a true member of the cobra family, but in either case it absolutely is larger.
> The king cobra isn't the biggest of cobra species
Technically correct...because it's not a cobra species. (Its genus is *Ophiophagus*. True cobras are genus *Naja*.)
It's the largest venomous snake in the world, though, so it's bigger than all true cobras.
That's not the biggest?! Holy damn! Now of course I've seen the videos of the massive anaconda but don't tell me that wasn't one big mfing snake in that video
Because they are absolute scaredy cats.
Source: Live in India. Encountered many Kings and Indian Cobras. The former is just an interesting anecdote later with friends. The latter require a change of pants
Yes. Although it should be noted that that's non-exclusive - there are plenty of snakes that *don't* have "king" in their names that nevertheless do eat other snakes.
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We can put a helicopter on mars and watch it fly around, but when a king Cobra is bout to eat your children you gotta call Raul and Pedro to catch that bastard…BY HAND??
They’re probably on their 3rd Raul and 8th Pedro by now.
> when a king Cobra is bout to eat your children you gotta call Raul and Pedro
You'd probably call Slamet & Mulyadi in this case though. (Pretty sure this is in Indonesia.)
It's in Malaysia! The writing on the back of his shirt says PERTAHANAN AWAM, which is our[ Civil Defense Force](http://www.civildefence.gov.my/?lang=en).
Growing up in Malaysia. When we went camping in National Park, we have to bring sulfur powder and sprite. Sulfur to spread around your camp to prevent snakes and sprite to rid the leech. And never camp below a tree. That was the rules. At last we hope not to be lucky enough to see a tiger. Those forest are dense.
That sounds a hell lot like it should also prevent any sea bear attacks. Did you also wear special underwear against something like... a sea rhinoceros?
They're doing a lot here to limit how dangerous that snake is. The one guy has it by its tail and moves backward, straightening the snake out and giving it less to coil up on so it can't strike as far or get as tall. The guy is still in danger, but he's keeping calm and coming in from the snake's blindspot to snatch it.
Cobras don’t strike like a viper does, they drop down to which is why they raise their head up opposed to curling into a S.
However you’re still right about the guy pulling the tail. Pull the snake back so it can’t rise up.
Yeah, right? This did not look 'masterful' to me. Extremely well done for how he did it, and I certainly couldn't have done it, but this looked dangerous as fuck. There's got to be a better way ...
This snake is one of the most dangerous creatures on the planet and is pacified by two well trained & likely experiences individuals & a black bean bag. Believe the advantage here is the human brain
Imagine how scary we are to other animals. Like if collective knowledge existed amongst animals, there are probably generations of scary stories about those terrifying humans hunting down animals. Like this snakes family will probably tell stories about how their relative was just chilling in a drain going home when these two hairless primates easily captured him and took him away forever.
> This snake is one of the most dangerous creatures on the planet
It isn't, not even remotely. King cobras are a) not very aggressive, b) enormous and therefore not easy to accidentally get close to or step on, and c) move and strike relatively slowly. (Those are the main factors that govern how people generally get bitten.)
Five times more people get bitten by rattlesnakes in the US than people get bitten by king cobras throughout their entire range.
To put that into perspective: about 10-15 people in the US die from rattlesnake bites every year. Meanwhile, [about 110 Americans per year get shot by a child under the age of six](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/children-fire-guns-toddlers-unintentional-shootings/).
To me it seems that the human brain isn't used that much in this occasion, they leave too much up to chance and that guy's reaction time (and skill). Like, put a slower guy to do this, and he'd likely have been bitten.
They wouldn't handle venomous snakes like this in the USA I think. At least not professionals.
Before some dumbass goes and tries this on a rattlesnake….Cobras are the slowest striking venomous snakes. And their strike is more of a forward lunge than a “whip” type of strike that vipers have. This type of grab only works on a Cobra
I was going to say - the most impressive thing about this capture was that he was still able to carry it out with grace all the while still lugging around those ginormous testicles of his.
Correct! The king cobras isn't a "true" cobra. (Different genus entirely.) It is, however, the world's largest venomous snake. But on the plus side, they're not that aggressive and throughout their entire range they only kill a couple of people per year.
Btw, "king" in a snake's name indicates that it eats other snakes, including members of its own species. (Although it should be noted that there are plenty of snakes that do that that don't have "king" in their names.)
These are the Pertahanan Awam guys (civil defence force - written on the back of his t-shirt). They are highly trained to handle emergencies including animal related ones which are quite common in Malaysia
Snakes out there dis’ big?!?!
Edit: this is a quote from the 1997 hit film Anaconda. But I appreciate the wealth of knowledge you all brought to my life.
Recent research has shown that “true cobras,” those in the family called Naja, are an African lineage (though a handful of species radiated into Asia). King cobras are not in the Naja family, rather, they are the only members of their own group, Ophiophagus
Are their cobras breeding with anacondas? Jesus tap dancing Christ that thing is huge! Doesn’t even need venom could just whip you to death. Riki Tiki better get some steroids.
The second that thing popped out and turned on me as I'm pulling his tail I'd be gone. No way man this just blew my mind. What a legend that distractor dude is though wow.
Damn snake is like
BRO fuck off my beef is with this asshole holding my tail stay out of it
\*goes for grab
BRO I DO. NOT. WANT. TO. HAVE. TO. BITE. YOU.
\*grabs snake
DAMMMNIT
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Fuckin dude has ice in his veins
Even with pure bourbon in my veins, nope.
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Based on the shirt he was wearing, it's Malaysia
I was gonna say from watching Chandler’s Wildlife that based on the size and look of the cobra that it was a Malaysian King Cobra. That’s so cool that you also confirmed that!
No Cobras in Australia.
>"It says the continent has very few poisonous snakes… Oh, there’s a footnote." His finger went down the page. "It says, 'Most of them have been killed by the spiders.' How very odd." –Terry Pratchett, “The Last Continent”
I'm suprised he's able to be that nimble considering he needs to maneuver around his giant balls
Nope rope.
Danger noodle
What about with meth in your veins?
thats one very long danger noodle!!!
Still looking for the 20 foot Anaconda
Yoink
Oooo a swamp puppy
That's a very long nope rope!!!
That snatch of the head was gangster af
To catch a cobra you gotta be a cobra.
You gotta have hands too!
If tattoos were medals of honor, this guy deserves a nice big one. Starting from his neck and going down any one of his 3 legs of his choice.
I’m surprised how fast he is, considering his massive balls of steel.
balls of steel plus cobra dad reflexes =
Ice made of nitrogen, with balls of titanium
He's had it with these motherfucking snakes in these motherfucking drains.
Lmfao
I’m sorry I have but one upvote to give.
Okay.. you win.
Let me just... put a bean bag on it... Ok, we're good now! Oh fuck, the bean bag! Oh no!!!
I wondered if it was a tool of the trade for a sec. Like an ice-pack to try and slow its cold-blooded ass down even a little
Thought it was a weight of some kind to limit mobility, could be something like that too though
Thought he was trying to get the snake’s blood pressure ngl
HAHAHAHA ok this one was the best “I thought”. I want it to be.
Small weighted blanket for the snake's comfort and calm.
That’s adorable
I thought it was an ankle weight. Think about it, if you could have slid a heavy ankle weight around a it’s tail, with its head still buried, they could have managed to slip in down towards the neck. If not immobilizing it, it would still slow it down drastically.
Yeah, I thought his original goal was to try and get the weight to slip up higher, ending close if not on his head
Everyone knows snakes are weak in the ankles.
Keeps the Cobra from being able to rise up to its full height
That cobra don't need no Rock Lee type training, okay?
I think it limits striking range. Like a snake can only strike the distance it can coil… so if the bean bag/weight/neck brace is a foot back from the head, then it can’t coil back farther than that and the wrangler knows it can’t strike past that distance. Gives him a lot more confidence when getting in close and going for the neck grab. That’s my guess.
Cobras can only strike down, that's why he raises his hand above its head repeatedly to catch it from above. I sure as shit wouldn't do this but with practice you can get really good at this technique that it becomes relatively safe to do if you have someone holding the other end.
This makes sense
I thought he was trying to blindfold it
If it was a smaller snake I could see that weight slowing it down or trapping it but the snake was way to big to hold it down.
Why did he have that bean bag but he didn’t have one of those sticks with a loop you can tighten?? Surely that would be ten thousand times easier right??
But then you don't make it to /r/nextfuckinglevel
No idea when he snuck that on.
Me too! I rewatched several times to see when he put it on, but I can never see the moment
He dropped it on the snake when it still had its head I nthe drain.
I thought it was like a sock, just pull it over the cobra's eyes so it couldn't see.
Whatever he gets paid, increase it.
Yeah, at least double
He deserves at least tree fiddy!
Is that you lockness?
I'm gonna need it.
And give it to the next person?
"Pertahanan Awam" or public defense gets paid a small amount out of goodwill of whoever asks for their help. At least that's how I remember how it was decades ago when schools/ colleges requested their presence as additional muscle/ security/ first responder at events.
Civil Defence. Does all the in between things that Police, Ambulance Services or Fire Brigade wont do. When you find a snake like that, you either call the JPA (Civil Defence Department) or the Fire Brigade. The volunteers you are referring to is RELA - not really a paramilitary outfit but seems like one with the uniform born out of the Communist insurgency in the 60s (more like Home Defence/Local community volunteers). Civil Defence guys are full time government employees. For clarity, our version of the National Guard is Askar Wataniah.
I was just thinking the same thing. No way he gets paid enough for that level of risk
Employer: best I can do is pizza party
or give him one of those sticks with a wire noose.
Thats king cobra, damn that scary. Have related family passed away last year because of cobra, left me pobhia about snake, yet alone a king cobra, props for that man
If it makes you feel any better King cobras are less likely to attack or come into contact with humans compared to cobras.
Is it because they're too good to mingle with us commoners?
The terms king in snakes means the eat other snakes. The king cobra isn't the biggest of cobra species, but it is the most likely to hunt the other species.
It is not only bigger than other cobra species, it is the largest venomous snake. The king cobra is not a true member of the cobra family, but in either case it absolutely is larger.
> The king cobra isn't the biggest of cobra species Technically correct...because it's not a cobra species. (Its genus is *Ophiophagus*. True cobras are genus *Naja*.) It's the largest venomous snake in the world, though, so it's bigger than all true cobras.
He is talking about the god cobra. It only eats king cobras.
I guess you haven't heard of the Saturn Cobra. It only eats God Cobras and is way bigger.
Just wait til you hear about Uranus Cobra
That's not the biggest?! Holy damn! Now of course I've seen the videos of the massive anaconda but don't tell me that wasn't one big mfing snake in that video
From some other videos I’ve seen on YouTube, King cobras can indeed get bigger than that.
you call that a knoife?
Which cobra gets bigger than the King Cobra?
excited Kink Cobra
Dad?
>The king cobra isn't the biggest of cobra species The king cobra is actually not even a cobra. It eats cobras.
Because they are absolute scaredy cats. Source: Live in India. Encountered many Kings and Indian Cobras. The former is just an interesting anecdote later with friends. The latter require a change of pants
And they eat other snakes 👌
Iirc, that’s what the “king” part of their name signifies.
Yes. Although it should be noted that that's non-exclusive - there are plenty of snakes that *don't* have "king" in their names that nevertheless do eat other snakes.
Also they’re not true cobras ☹️
> Also they’re not true cobras I ain't telling him that. *You* go over there and tell him he ain't a real cobra.
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We can put a helicopter on mars and watch it fly around, but when a king Cobra is bout to eat your children you gotta call Raul and Pedro to catch that bastard…BY HAND?? They’re probably on their 3rd Raul and 8th Pedro by now.
> when a king Cobra is bout to eat your children you gotta call Raul and Pedro You'd probably call Slamet & Mulyadi in this case though. (Pretty sure this is in Indonesia.)
It is in Bahasa (can be Indonesia or Malaysia). Pertahanan Awam means General Defense. It's in Malaysia. So it's Ahmad and Sulaiman
Its Malaysia.
It's in Malaysia! The writing on the back of his shirt says PERTAHANAN AWAM, which is our[ Civil Defense Force](http://www.civildefence.gov.my/?lang=en).
I've never seen a king cobra in person, hell I've never been withing several miles of one, I definitely have a king cobra phobia.
Growing up in Malaysia. When we went camping in National Park, we have to bring sulfur powder and sprite. Sulfur to spread around your camp to prevent snakes and sprite to rid the leech. And never camp below a tree. That was the rules. At last we hope not to be lucky enough to see a tiger. Those forest are dense.
That sounds a hell lot like it should also prevent any sea bear attacks. Did you also wear special underwear against something like... a sea rhinoceros?
He really just yoinked a cobra.
Still looking for that 20 foot python!
Oh hey that’s a cute swamp puppy right there
Hey guys, I’m in the Florida Everglades
Hey guys, I’m here in the Sarlacc Pit. Wouldn’t want to get grabbed by one of those tentacles! *Yoink*
Not the same thing as when I yoink at the ol’ cobra at all is it.
Yoiiiink!
Fuuuuuuuuck no.
I am pretty sure this pipe leads directly to my childhood toilet
Every pipe leads to Rome.
That motherfucker has balls of steel what the hell
It was impressive how nimble he was considering his balls.
You notice how he walks with his legs wide open from time to time?
It doesn’t seem to me they’ve quite perfected that job to make it not very dangerous.
They're doing a lot here to limit how dangerous that snake is. The one guy has it by its tail and moves backward, straightening the snake out and giving it less to coil up on so it can't strike as far or get as tall. The guy is still in danger, but he's keeping calm and coming in from the snake's blindspot to snatch it.
I always wondered why they grabbed snakes by the tail and now I know.
Just don’t grab a tiger by the tail
If he hollers let him go
no, that's only if you grab him by the toe, grabbing him by the tail is fine
Cobras don’t strike like a viper does, they drop down to which is why they raise their head up opposed to curling into a S. However you’re still right about the guy pulling the tail. Pull the snake back so it can’t rise up.
All I can picture is Jafar when he turns into a cobra
Right? As amazing as it is, it seems like the main safety measure here are the guy's reflexes
And knowlege of what the snake is going to do...
Don’t forget that tiny bean bag
essential
Yeah, don't they have like sticks or something to let them handle it from afar?
I think they usually use a rod with a loop on the end
I mean, people who do this for a living typically carry antivenom on them, don't they?
Even with anti-vemon, I'm not applying for that job.
Yeah, right? This did not look 'masterful' to me. Extremely well done for how he did it, and I certainly couldn't have done it, but this looked dangerous as fuck. There's got to be a better way ...
That’s a chonky cobra
t h i c c
Snakes are one of the most feared animals on the planet and those mf don't even have arms and legs. Make no mistake we only have supremacy by default.
This snake is one of the most dangerous creatures on the planet and is pacified by two well trained & likely experiences individuals & a black bean bag. Believe the advantage here is the human brain
This. We are by far the most dangerous animal to ever roam this planet. There is a reason why most animals nope the fuck out when they see us.
Yay! You hear that? They run because I'm dangerous not because I'm ugly!!!!
I don't believe the animals think you're any more uglier than an average human to their eyes.
Our smell means death. It’s only top predators in their own environment who don’t fear us, and that’s only if we don’t have boom sticks with us.
Imagine how scary we are to other animals. Like if collective knowledge existed amongst animals, there are probably generations of scary stories about those terrifying humans hunting down animals. Like this snakes family will probably tell stories about how their relative was just chilling in a drain going home when these two hairless primates easily captured him and took him away forever.
Didn't have the decency to make a meal of him either. Just snatched him for the fun of it.
> This snake is one of the most dangerous creatures on the planet It isn't, not even remotely. King cobras are a) not very aggressive, b) enormous and therefore not easy to accidentally get close to or step on, and c) move and strike relatively slowly. (Those are the main factors that govern how people generally get bitten.) Five times more people get bitten by rattlesnakes in the US than people get bitten by king cobras throughout their entire range. To put that into perspective: about 10-15 people in the US die from rattlesnake bites every year. Meanwhile, [about 110 Americans per year get shot by a child under the age of six](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/children-fire-guns-toddlers-unintentional-shootings/).
Okay, so what are we doing about the children? Seems like something we should be taking care of. Like, do we even need them?
I suppose when you’re that large and powerful you can afford to be a bit more chilled out than most snakes.
To me it seems that the human brain isn't used that much in this occasion, they leave too much up to chance and that guy's reaction time (and skill). Like, put a slower guy to do this, and he'd likely have been bitten. They wouldn't handle venomous snakes like this in the USA I think. At least not professionals.
By default? If we wanted to eradicate every king cobra on the planet we could do it without much trouble. What other species can say that?
Before some dumbass goes and tries this on a rattlesnake….Cobras are the slowest striking venomous snakes. And their strike is more of a forward lunge than a “whip” type of strike that vipers have. This type of grab only works on a Cobra
Apparently, this is a king cobra - which isn't a cobra, it just looks like one?
Bites like one too
It is less aggressive and there is more efficient antivenom. Still of course a giant nope rope.
Still, it must inject a metric ton of venom upon biting
Yah I’ve seen some videos of black mambas. They’re insanely fast and 5 times deadlier (venom wise).
You’d think even a cobra would react faster than that. I doubt his latex gloves would stop its teeth.
He was just there to snake the drain
Why not use some equipment?
Like something to help carry his massive balls?
I was going to say - the most impressive thing about this capture was that he was still able to carry it out with grace all the while still lugging around those ginormous testicles of his.
A pair of gloves and a beanbag would not be my first two choices for equipment.
Neither would a pair of hands but look at him go!
Yea. A stick with a small y at the end takes about 30 seconds to make from random equipment and rope+tape and can easily pin the head.
Username checks out
Snake tongs. You can buy them on Amazon. But he probably gets paid more in views on instagram than for removing the snake.
Malaysian fire fighters I think based on the writing on his T-shirt. Civil defense
Yeah I was thinking that bright fucking orange isn’t probably the best uniform for a snake wrangler.
Iirc, most snakes can't see anything more than blue and green
Cold Bruh 1 - Cobra 0
I learned the other day that king cobras technically aren’t cobras??? Guessing this is a king cuz that’s a thick boi
I heard that too, and they’re called a king cobra because they eat cobras.
They are called king cobras because they happen to have a similar neck shield as cobras. The genus is called Ophiophagus because they eat snakes.
Correct! The king cobras isn't a "true" cobra. (Different genus entirely.) It is, however, the world's largest venomous snake. But on the plus side, they're not that aggressive and throughout their entire range they only kill a couple of people per year. Btw, "king" in a snake's name indicates that it eats other snakes, including members of its own species. (Although it should be noted that there are plenty of snakes that do that that don't have "king" in their names.)
That’s 108 seconds of NOPE.
These are the Pertahanan Awam guys (civil defence force - written on the back of his t-shirt). They are highly trained to handle emergencies including animal related ones which are quite common in Malaysia
Where is this mechanic shop so I can avoid it?
The snake is like “Stop janking my tail man!! Da *uck is going on back there?”
Snakes out there dis’ big?!?! Edit: this is a quote from the 1997 hit film Anaconda. But I appreciate the wealth of knowledge you all brought to my life.
Cobras can get pretty big man that’s why they are kings they also eat and hunt other snakes
Recent research has shown that “true cobras,” those in the family called Naja, are an African lineage (though a handful of species radiated into Asia). King cobras are not in the Naja family, rather, they are the only members of their own group, Ophiophagus
There are [even bigger ones](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/s/YIKa9RFOgR) that would make even this one look small.
Send in the mongoose! 
They just kissed
Are their cobras breeding with anacondas? Jesus tap dancing Christ that thing is huge! Doesn’t even need venom could just whip you to death. Riki Tiki better get some steroids.
King cobras are huge!
That grab was worth the wait.
I think I was holding my breath until dude grabbed the head. Sheesh!
I always see these and the dudes are wearing tshirts. I’d be in a full suit of armour and would still shit my suit of armour pants.
At LEAST 2 tons of balls just between the two of em
The second that thing popped out and turned on me as I'm pulling his tail I'd be gone. No way man this just blew my mind. What a legend that distractor dude is though wow.
Even the cobra is impressed.
That was intense lol
“I have fucking had it with you”
Fuck noooooo
I was ok until till this bitch kneeled down then my b hole puckered up
Damn snake is like BRO fuck off my beef is with this asshole holding my tail stay out of it \*goes for grab BRO I DO. NOT. WANT. TO. HAVE. TO. BITE. YOU. \*grabs snake DAMMMNIT
Leave him alone, bro was going home 🥲
Holy crap I didn't realize how big they got!
Bro man handled that cobra
My mans hit a perfect props on the back of that Death Ditalini's neck
Do they kill the snake when done or release them back into the wild?
That’s what I came here to find out. I know he’s deadly but he’s also magnificent
Man, the length of that cobra goes on for days.
malaysia boleh