This is a dog-eat-dog world, but for snakes.

Wildlife enthusiasts visiting Windsor Nature Park recently witnessed an epic fight between two king cobras which ended with the larger dragging the smaller snake away, presumably for food.

An Instagram user, Ang Jun Yang, shared the incident on Sunday (Dec 8) on the platform, with photos showing the larger snake with its jaws around the neck of the smaller one, with bite marks and blood visible on it. the latter. They can also be seen wrapped around each other in battle.

“I was alerted on Facebook to a sighting of a huge king cobra swimming in the stream at Windsor Nature Park. The king appeared to be in hunting mode and I was hoping he might linger,” wrote the 26-year-old doctor.

It was his friend who managed to spot the snake, and Ang added: “It looked like it had caught something, but we couldn’t really figure out what it was feeding on.”

“I walked back about four to five meters and lo and behold, there was an even bigger cobra on land and it was engaged in a massive battle with the smaller king cobra.

“Soon after, he managed to get the little cobra out of the stream and back to land.”

King cobras are the largest venomous snakes in the world and primarily feed on other snakes. They are found in Singapore in the Central Catchment Nature Reserve, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Kranji, Sentosa and Pulau Tekong, according to the National Parks Board (NParks).

Ang told AsiaOne that he estimated the smallest snake was about two to 2.5 meters long and the largest was between 3.5 and almost four meters.

“Given the huge difference in size, you would think the smaller snake would turn around and be eaten, but it did everything but that, fighting vigorously from 1:15 p.m. until I left at 5:30 p.m.,” he said. -he declared. shared in his Instagram post.

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Another wildlife enthusiast, Prashanta Kumar Mohanty, stayed longer at the site, until the park closed, and shared his experience on the Facebook group Herping the Globe.

“When I arrived there, I could see that the large king cobra was trying to swallow the small one, but both of their heads were covered in detritus (leaves),” he wrote. “After a few minutes of struggle, he released the small king cobra but never left the area.”

He said the snake appeared to go into the stream to rest and drink water.

“Later, it returned and dragged its prey inside the bushes. By that time, it was almost 7 p.m. (park closing time) and so we had to leave the area.”

Ang told us that the smaller king cobra was still alive when he left, but according to his friends, he may have died or been close to him at the time everyone had to leave because he was lying motionless.

“My friends who were the last to leave told me that the smaller cobra was subdued, was not moving but that swallowing had not started.”

He shared that it was “an incredible and breathtaking experience, that’s for sure.”

“It’s my first time seeing an animal, so it’s huge, but to see two king cobras in one day in the wild fighting was truly remarkable,” he added.

“On top of that, the battle and brawl went from water to land and then back into the water before returning to land, so it was truly a spectacle and an absolute spectacle.”

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