Rare and deadly albino cobra slithers into house during intense rainstorm | Live Science
An extremely rare and potentially deadly albino cobra had to be removed from a house in India after the white snake slithered in during a severe rainstorm.
Neighbors spotted the pale cobra climbing out of fast flowing water on the ground and into a passageway beside the house in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu state, southern India, on May 3. Experts from the Wildlife and Nature Conservation Trust (WNCT) later arrived to safely capture the snake, which was then released into the wild.
The 5-foot-long (1.5 meters) snake was identified as an albino Indian cobra (Naja naja), WNCT representatives wrote on Facebook (opens in new tab). The species, which are also known as the spectacled cobra, is considered one of the “big four” snake species that are responsible for the most snakebite cases in India.
If an albino cobra isn’t an omen, I don’t know what is.