An injured King Cobra was released in the Bairi forest on Wednesday after its treatment in the veterinary hospital at Chhatia in Jajpur district. The four-feet-long snake was injured after some persons attacked it with sticks near the Bairi railway station.
Some locals informed forest officials about it and Forester Sarat Mohapatra rushed to the spot and rescued cobra and admitted it in the veterinary hospitalThe King Cobra is protected under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. King Cobras are nocturnal in habit and mainly feed on other snakes which are smaller in size and sometimes on rodents, small mammals and bird eggs.