Basudeb Behera, a fisherman in eastern India, got the shock of his life when he found an adult cobra trapped in his fishing net. <br /><br />The over five-foot-long venomous snake had sneaked into the net he had cast overnight in the Luna river flowing by his village near Puri. <br /><br />When he went to collect his catch on April 22, he was shocked to find a huge snake along with the fish. The cobra was angrily thrashing around in the water to find a way out of the net. <br /><br />A terrified Basudeb called Snake Helpline which sent a volunteer, Susant Behera, to help him. <br /><br />Both of them rowed to the spot in a small boat and found that the cobra was close to exhaustion. They dragged the fishing net to the shore where Susant rescued the Monocled cobra and released it in a nearby forest. <br /><br />Founder of Snake Helpline, Subhendu Mallik, said: "Earlier fishermen would just kill the snake, but now they call us to remove the snake. That’s small progress."
