An 8-year-old boy managed to kill an adult cobra that sank its fangs into his flesh by biting it back.
Deepak from India was reportedly playing outside their home in the remote Pandarpadh village when the snake suddenly attacked him.
The huge reptile quickly wrapped its body around his arm before biting his skin to inject its lethal poison.
Despite the pain, Deepak tried to fight back by shaking his arm but couldn’t remove the cobra. That’s when he gave the snake a taste of its own medicine by biting it so hard that it ultimately killed the reptile.
Speaking to The New Indian Express, the young boy said: “As the reptile didn’t budge when I tried to shake it off, I bit it hard twice. It all happened in a flash!”
Scared for their son’s life, Deepak’s parents took him to a medical center where he was kept under observation to make sure that he would make a complete recovery.
Upon examining his injury, doctors found out that he had a ‘dry bite,’ which means the cobra did not release venom.
A snake expert told the news outlet: “Deepak didn’t show any symptoms and recovered fast owing to the dry bite when the poisonous snake strikes but no venom is released.”
Dry bites are usually delivered by adult snakes that already control the release of their poisonous venom.
Snakes deploy venom from their glands to kill their prey or combat predators but dry bites are done when an adult snake is trying to scare off or warn animals.
In India, 90 percent of snakebites come from the Indian cobra, the krait, the sawscaled viper, and Russell’s viper.
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