The ground squirrel fought with the king cobra for half an hour and it ended

According to Earth Touch News, guide Dave Pusey recently filmed a video recording a ground squirrel fighting with a king cobra at Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park – a large semi-desert area located on the border between South Africa and Botswana. .

Recent rains seem to be causing the snakes to leave their hiding places. Pusey was walking down the road when he saw an African cobra.

Pusey knew he was going near snakes because of their tracks in the sand. “We saw the cobra looked very stressed, ready to attack, just a few centimeters away was a ground squirrel, it looked like the two animals were determined to confront each other,” Pusey said.

African king cobra vs ground squirrel.

Ground squirrels have lightning-fast reflexes, but the king cobra is of course always appreciated for its deadly venom.

“The squirrel kept moving back and forth, sometimes coming closer to actively attack the king cobra first. The snake is just waiting for that to strike its forte,” Pusey described. “But the ground squirrel didn’t fit either, it jumped out of the snake’s range and then charged again. The same scene repeats itself.”

After half an hour, unable to bite the ground squirrel, the African king cobra had to be the one to leave. Pusey thought that the ground squirrel was taking care of the cubs nearby, so he decided to get in the way of the snake.

“I have been a guide in Kgalagadi for many years and have never seen anything like it. This is probably a once-in-a-lifetime moment,” Pusey said.

Other snakes are usually quite reluctant to encounter ground squirrels. Research in California, USA, has shown that ground squirrels know how to use their tails to repel rattlesnakes. In many cases rattlesnakes give up when they see ground squirrels.

The video recorded a scene of a king cobra twisting its body like a drill down a deep hole, pulling up a cobra…