Posted on 10/30/2022 8:47:34 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A venomous 2.2-meter (7 foot) king cobra that escaped from its home in a Swedish zoo has returned back home by itself, bringing a happy ending to over a week-long disappearance saga.
...As a result of an intensive search with X-ray machines, “Houdini” was located earlier this week in a confined space near the terrarium in the insulation between two walls.
Holes were drilled into the walls where the snake was hiding but the cobra disappeared from the view of the X-ray cameras in the early Sunday. It turned out the snake had given up its freedom ride and crawled back to its terrarium.
“It was too stressful for Houdini with all the holes in the walls, so he wanted to go home again,” Wahlstrom told SVT.
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Probably trying to get somewhere warm before winter.
Not to all of us.
A follow up : Some of us actually read KIPLING, DANNY DEEVER happens to be one of my favorites, kinda reminds me of being back in the Corps.
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