An encounter between a snake and a baby ended unexpectedly when the boy killed the reptile – by biting off its head.
The 1-year-old, named ImadGadir from Shfaram in northern Israel,
found the 35-centimetre-long snake in his room Thursday morning and was
chewing on it when his mother found him, the Ynetnewssite reported
Friday.
Her horrified screams alerted a neighbour who rushed to the house and grabbed the remains of the snake from the boy’s hands.
“I guess the kid acted out of a childish instinct when he put the
snake in his mouth,” Ynet quoted snake catcher Eli Cohen as saying.
“Luckily for him, the coin snake isn’t poisonous; otherwise, it could
have ended in a tragedy.”
The bite of a coin snake is not poisonous but can be dangerous to
anyone allergic to it. The snake chokes its prey, Cohen said, adding
that had it been larger, Imad could well have been strangled.
The infant sustained no injuries from his encounter but was taken to a
hospital in Haifa for a medical check to be on the safe side.
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