SNAKE'S DUEL AT ZOO.
LONDON, May 22. On the day the' white elephant arrived at the London Zoo. the famous white cobra was killed in a duel. Horace— such was the flippant name bestowed on the beautiful deadly creature—shared ’a class cage with the South African ringhals. which is a cousin of the cobra family. The ringlials is a reptile of hasty temper and low habits. Chief of these is his trick of spitting a spray of poison 8 or 0 iVet. This the ringhals regarded as a gift, but the keepers looked on it as a horrid vice, and they wore motorgoggles whenever they had to push their heads into tlie cage. Horace and the ringhals often rpiarrelled and hit each other. Poison was, of course, injected at each bite, but snakes of allied species are immune to their own racial venom. Tn the fatal fight which celebrated the advent of the white elephant, the fangs of the ringhals went clean into the spine of the white cobra and the strange, rare creature died from the twin stabs
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1926, Page 4
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179SNAKE'S DUEL AT ZOO. Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1926, Page 4
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