Posted on 11/01/2022 11:24:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Skansen Aquarium in Stockholm, Sweden, said a king cobra that escaped from its enclosure Oct. 22 returned to its terrarium on its own a little over a week later. Photo by antriksh/Pixabay.com
The Skansen Aquarium in Stockholm, Sweden, said a king cobra that escaped from its enclosure Oct. 22 returned to its terrarium on its own a little over a week later. Photo by antriksh/Pixabay.com Oct. 31 (UPI) -- The venomous king cobra that escaped at a Swedish aquarium returned to its terrarium on its own after about a week on the loose, officials said.
The Skansen Aquarium in Stockholm said in a Facebook post that the cobra, named Sir Vas, or Sir Hiss, before being rebranded Houdini due to its Oct. 22 escape from its terrarium through a light fixture, was found to have returned to its terrarium Sunday after over a week of evading capture.
Officials said they do not believe the snake left the building during its time on the loose and was repeatedly spotted by searchers, but they were never able to catch up to the evasive serpent.
The aquarium said the terrarium has now been secured and Houdini will return to public display Monday.
king cobra , “OMG it’s too damn cold out there”
Cobras are a lot of things but dumb isn’t one of them.
Where else could it go?
It’s not like it’s summer time in Sweden!
It heard Hillary was available.
It’s where the lizards are
Maybe they had a mongoose on the loose!...................
Pic appears to be of a spectacled cobra.
That is a majestic serpent. It has enough venom to kill bull elephant.
King cobras are pretty intelligent. In the wild their diet consists of other snakes. In captivity you can feed them chicken necks.
And quite deadly.
The street diet didn’t agree with it.
probably couldn’t find anything to eat so went back to where it knew it would get a meal..................
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