The white snake was safely captured by wildlife experts in India before being released back into the wild.
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.
The 5-foot-long snake was identified as an albino Indian cobra , WNCT representatives wrote on Facebook . 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. However, albinism isn't always a disadvantage, at least for some snakes. In a study published in February 2022 in the journal Zoology , researchers used fake snakes to test whether white or albino snakes were at a higher risk of predation from birds than normal colored individuals. The results suggested that albinism did not increase the rate of predation, likely because their discoloration confused the birds, which use the snakes' skin patterns to identify them as prey.
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