Guess I’ll be looking A LOT closer at the ground after reading this. I am not near this area, but that would keep me out of the woods if I were.
This is wild! Armadillos in the south still baffle me, and now this!
Mark 16:17-18
I used to live at the gate to Ft. Bragg as a youngster when my Dad was stationed there. I was about 9 or so. In the part of the base adjacent to where we lived we “discovered” a rice paddy and village replica and a zoo of jungle animals. We befriended and fed the coati mundi. It was near the fitness trail if anyone was there in the early seventies. Maybe it escaped from there.
Also, in my neighborhood was an exotic animal dealer. He sold the record King Cobra for the movie SSSSSSSSS. I saw it in his basement and it scare me to death. Huge snake.
Yikes! That is spooky. Doesn’t sound like this guy is some kind of a nut and it looks like the wildlife agents are taking it seriously. Hope they get it, and soon.
I can just imagine a security cam video of the interview as he bends his leg behind himself to kick the King Cobra exhibit sign behind a table. Meanwhile, he's leaning on a tarp covering an obviously broken aquarium-type enclosure, the break not visible to the cameraman but certainly to us, the viewer.
Vernon Byrd was on an all-terrain vehicle in a field off Johnson Road last Tuesday.....
Maybe he should stay off the Cobra beer??
I've always read/heard that King Cobras are by nature reclusive, and will avoid contact with humans whenever possible...if true this seems very uncharacteristic. They also are, in terms relative to other poisonous snakes, much slower moving...a mongoose that can generally outmaneuver and gain an advantage over a cobra will be dead meat up against some other vipers.
Yet we keep letting them get imported as pets/research subjects etc...
A King Cobra was reported in the Everglades by a friend who is a man of such character and education as to be an unimpeachable source.
When he contacted the Serpentarium, the owner said another had been reported north of Lake Okeechobee. He hoped they would not meet and reproduce.
Sounds like Hillary or Obama were doing a little woods strolling, popped their heads up to ask for votes, the just look hooded and snaky..
There was a thread about this yesterday too.
Boas in Florida, Cobras in North Carolina! WOW