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Mattias Klum Eddagatan 10 /
National Geographic Magazine
"King Cobra"

 

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"No Room for Error" With no room for error, snake handler Othman Ayib intensely eyes his student, who attempts to calm and kiss a wild king cobra. Ayib caught the agitated snake on a Malaysian golf course, where it had strayed from the forest, and later freed it on wilder lands. "Snakes aren't evil or mean," he says. "They just want to be left alone."
 
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