Word: cobras
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...Panama to hunt the bush master, largest, deadliest of vipers. Sometimes 12 ft. long with 2-in. fangs, the bush master carries enough venom to kill a man in less than five minutes. (Dr. Ditmars once saw a companion so killed.) The bush master is a cousin of the cobra, carries a spine on the end of his tail. Usually reddish brown, he may be pinkish with black splotches. "Some of them are the color of canned salmon," said Dr. Ditmars. "A very handsome, calm and insolent snake." Rare, bush masters live only in the tropics. Within the last year...
...Sumatra with a director and two cameramen to take pictures of the procedure. Director Clyde E. Elliott knew that people like wild animal cinemas for the same reason that they like the tigers in the circus. Remembering UFA's brilliant short of a fight between a mongoose and a cobra, he saw to it that there were plenty of fights in Bring 'Em Back Alive...
...Yerovda Jail near Poona, in a cell not far from the one which houses the sainted person of Mahatma Gandhi, one day last week sat another Nationalist leader named L. B. Bhopatkar. Suddenly he heard a warning shout, saw before him a large, ugly cobra. The warden who had shouted ran off for a club while Prisoner Bhopatkar was left alone with his cobra. Regarded as sacred by most Indians, the cobra must be avoided, not slain. But Prisoner Bhopatkar, locked in his cell, could not avoid this one. Unarmed, neither could he kill it. As the cobra fixed...
...Then the cobra put down its head and glided forward. With a hungry gape of its flexible lower jaw it seized the frog by the middle and started swallowing it in a third direction. The schaapstecker and the adder, to their undoing, held on grimly...
Soon, by a series of forward jerks, the cobra shoved its jaws over the heads of the other two snakes. Its fangs sank home, its venom flowed, the adder and the schaapstecker went limp and helpless. Then slowly down the cobra's jerking, gullet passed frog, snakes and all. proving that in the snake world, victory is to him whose mouth holds most...