Sridhara Parida, a resident of a village near Pipili in eastern India saw a deadly cobra entering his house on May 5. <br /><br />He searched for it but could not find it anywhere. He called a Snake Helpline volunteer, Susant Behera, who also failed to find the snake. But when he approached a typewriter in a room he heard a sharp hiss sound from inside.<br /><br />Realising that the cobra was hiding inside the machine, Susant carefully took it outside. <br /><br />Rescuing the cobra was an ordeal as it was not easy to dismantle the machine. The cobra, which had found a secure refuge, was not keen to come out. <br /><br />He poked the three-feet-long cobra with a stick and managed to dislodge it. He then pulled it out by the tail, put it in a bag and released it in a natural habitat.<br /><br />Founder of Snake Helpline, Subhendu Mallik, said: "The monocled cobra had probably entered the house while following prey. It was odd to find it inside a typewriter and luckily it was spotted on time.”<br /><br />Monocled cobras contain deadly neurotoxic venom, which can kill in less than 30 minutes if a bite is left untreated.
