Challenging Ophidiophobia, one man from India believed that deadly snakes are actually quiet creatures that will only attack seriously when provoked. This man was going to prove it as well, in what reports describe, "in the most insane way possible."
As indicated in an IFL Science report, fear of snakes is the world's most common phobia. In certain circumstances, this kind of fear is anything but irrational in which some snakes can deliver venom so strong; it can kill an adult individual within 45 minutes.
Whether it's an evolutionary protective measure or just that some people are freaked out by an animal, slithering without legs, possibly, snakes will never be a best friend to humans.
The man in this report, 28-year-old Neelim Kumar Khaire, a receptionist at a five-star hotel in Pune, India, in 1986. An avid lover of reptiles, Khaire had worked in the past at a holiday home near Bombay, where he was exposed to various snakes who evidently wanted to enjoy a holiday.
Obsession to Snakes
Neelim Kumar Khaire was a 28-year-old receptionist at a five-star hotel in Pune, India, in 1986. An avid reptile lover, Khaire had worked previously at a holiday home close to Bombay, where he was exposed to various snakes who clearly wanted to enjoy a holiday themselves. As a manager, it was the man's task to deal with them.
The man said reptiles were often visitors at his place in Matheran. He hated killing what he described as "such beautiful creatures," most of them, he claimed, were harmless.
So, he tried to catch and release the snakes in the Sahyadri hill. Once, he caught a snake and took it to Haffkin Institute in Bombay.
The man was told it was a deadly snake as it was poisonous and quite dangerous to be carried in this manner. An India Today report said the occurrence boosted Khaire's courage, and thus he started his obsession with snakes.
The man said he boasted a fairly impressive 25,000 snake catches and just 6,000 bites, although some may contend 6,000 snake bites in a single lifetime is slightly above acceptable levels.
Snakes as 'Friends' Instead of Enemies
Despite the frequent bites, the 28-year-old was proud to live in a country with widespread reptiles and always considered snakes, friends instead of enemies.
So, when Khaire caught wind of Peter Snymaris, described as the daring South African who had recently stayed enclosed with 24 snakes, 18 of which were poisonous, for 50 hours, Khaire decided to claim the record for himself and his country, which he said he believed to be the snakes' land.
Setting up a glass of confinement with a chair so he could enjoy his stay, the man began to fill the new container with 72 snakes.
No friendly corn snakes, as described in Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, were there either, inside with Khaire were 27 monocled cobras, nine Indian cobras, 24 Russell's vipers, four common snakes, and eight banded kraits.
Sixty-eight of 72 snakes, for context, were able to deliver bites with enough poison to kill this man with ease. The monocle cobra is presently the most fatal snake in Thailand, whose venom can penetrate severe neurotoxicity on the unlucky recipient.
Notably, Khaire stayed in the enclosure for an astounding 72 hours. Under a Guinness Book of World Records official's supervision, Khaire smashed the record Snymaris set and, in his eyes, proved once and for all that snakes will attack when they are provoked.
Essentially, the man demonstrated this by recurrently taking the snakes from moving over him while inside the cage. At which point, he would pick them up gently and bring them back to the ground.
He was not bitten once in the 72 hours he stayed with the snakes. If anything, the experience Khaire made more in love with the deadly snakes.
Related information about snakes is shown on Discovery UK's YouTube video below:
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