Are venomous snakes really harmless if you don't provoke them?
Are venomous snakes really harmless if you don't provoke
them?
A 28-year-old Indian man wanted to demonstrate precisely that. And he succeeded impressively.
Neelam Kumar Khaire
spent 72 hours with special companions in a glass cabin. There were 27 monocell
cobras, 24 Russell vipers, 9 binocell cobras, 8 banded kraits, and 4 other
snakes.
Khaire wanted to educate
the public that snakes don't attack unless provoked. That was in 1986.
He didn't understand
why people had tried to persuade him that snakes were so dangerous, even when
he was a child. He already owned a small snake collection and then read a report
about the world record for removing hair from venomous snakes. At the time, it took 50 hours.
He decided to break this record.
And so he sat in a
glass house with all those snakes. He
was thought to be insane by some. He often has to remove them from his body
when they crawl onto him.
He stayed there with
72 snakes for 72 hours.
So far, no one has
broken his record.
He is now a zoologist, owns 160 snakes, and has written four books about snakes.
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