Thirsty King Cobra sips water from bottle in drought-hit Karnataka village – Watch

Bengaluru: An amazing video has come to light showing a King Cobra sipping from a water bottle in a drought-hit Indian village.

The video shows a 12-feet long cobra gladly sipping the water offered by wildlife rescue workers in a village in the Kaiga township of Karnataka`s Uttara Kannada district.

The village is grappling with the scarcity of water due to drought.

However, the deadly reptile was immediately offered water from a bottle by a villager while holding a snake catcher in the other hand in case the serpent launches a vicious attack. Another man is seeing holding the extremely venomous snake's tail to ensure that it does not cause harm to the person giving the water.

The men in the footage are forest officer CN Naykka and snake expert Raghavendra.

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The snake was later taken to an animal care facility.

King Cobra can mostly be found in the forests of India and Asia and is a species of venomous snake belonging to the Elapidae family.

Karnataka is in the throes of a drought for the third consecutive year.