King Cobra swimming

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

TRYST with Nature's most revered, intelligent and largest venomous snake in the world.
It is light coloured, seems to me, to be a female.The near -yellow bands on the snake's back are comparatively broader.
The flicking of its forked tongue out has been nicely documented at the right moment. The raised head upto the third inverted 'V' mark, nearly upto which the hood is spread when alarmed has also been well taken.
It is a very rare nice image,that too in the Sundarbans.I am yet to see such a photograph in any books on the Sundarbans.

Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild