Indian wildlife photographer Bhanu Pratap Singh Rathore captured a rather strange moment happening from a hole in a concrete wall. An Indian cobra is apparently eating a Russell's viper — both are highly venomous snakes.
The video, shared by the popular Instagram channel Nature is Metal, was posted on Tuesday and has already garnered some 1.3 million views, 22,000 likes, and more than 200 comments.
However, Rathore posted the video in October 2023 after seeing the incident in Udaipur, located about 434 miles southwest of New Delhi. He explained that both snakes were around six feet in length.
Although a snake's venom can hurt another species of venomous snake, experts say they can eat each other no problem (or maybe no issues).
"Venom needs to be injected into the bloodstream to work its magic," wrote the mysterious admin for Nature is Metal. "Since it is being ingested by and not injected into the snake, the winner's stomach acid will break down the venom's proteins (along with the viper) and the cobra will not even notice that the dread thread it just consumed could once have posed a toxic threat."
