The king cobra that escaped a week ago from its enclosure at a Swedish zoo was spotted a few hours ago on a wall but slipped away again, authorities said.
The reptile, nicknamed “Sir Väs”, he escaped through a lamp from his terrariuma few days after arriving at the Skansen Zoo of Stockholm Following his disappearance, the cobra was given the new nickname of “Houdini”alluding to the famous illusionist and king of escapism at the beginning of the last century.
The reptile section of the zoo is closed due to the leak.
To find their tracks, the employees they scatter flour and set sticky traps. They were also equipped with special cameras, provided by customs, to inspect hard-to-reach nooks and crannies.
Yesterday, Friday, it looked like the reptile’s escape was finally coming to an end when the snake was detected on a wall.
“Thanks to painstaking work, Sir Väs could finally be placed on an internal wall, close to the terrarium,” said the same source. “But Friday, sneak out again”says the statement giving more mystery to the story.
The zoo’s terrarium has been home to king cobras for nearly fifteen years, but it took this new tenant a few days to find an escape.
According to the zoo management, “Houdini” benefited from the fact that the zoo staff recently changed the lamps in the terrarium to low consumption light bulbs They heat up much less than the previous ones. A heat that kept the reptiles at a distance.
King Cobra, native to South and Southeast Asiait is the longest venomous snake in the world, but little devoted to attacking humans.
Their main prey are other snakes. Its bite can be fatal for humans if not treated quickly.
Source: Clarin
