When people throw used bottles away as litter, they sometimes endanger the lives of animals.
Similarly, tourists who go on a trip to forest areas, throw and break liquor bottles after drinking alcohol, causing injuries to the legs of wild animals including elephants and endangering their lives.
That’s why environmental and animal activists are urging the public to please do not throw empty bottles where you find them, and dispose of them properly.
A video of snake helpline volunteers rescuing a cobra mistaking it for prey after swallowing a discarded cough syrup bottle and struggling for life has gone viral on social media.
A common cobra swallowed a cough syrup bottle in Bhubaneswar & was struggling to regurgitate it.
Volunteers from snake help line gently widened the lower jaw to free the rim of the base of the bottle with great risk & saved a precious life.
Kudos 🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/rviMRBPodl— Susanta Nanda (@susantananda3) July 3, 2024
In 2 video clips shared by IFS officer Susantha Nanda on her X social media page, a cobra swallows a bottle of cough syrup and struggles to expel it and volunteers rescue it.
In the video, a cobra swallows a bottle of cough syrup and struggles for life as it is unable to expel it. The snake helpline volunteers, who have come to know about this, gently press the snake’s jaw to push the bottle out. Eventually the snake slowly pushes the bottle out of the snake’s mouth. Eventually the snake throws the bottle out completely and survives.
Commenting on the video, IFS officer Susantha Nanda said, “A cobra in Bhubaneswar swallowed a bottle of cough syrup and struggled to expel it again.
Volunteers from the Snake Helpline saved the precious life by gently spreading the lower jaw of the snake to release the edge of the bottom of the bottle at great risk.
congratulations.” mentioned that.
Even those who are afraid of snakes feel sorry for the snake after watching this video of a snake swallowing a bottle of cough syrup and fighting for its life. So, please don’t throw the bottles where you find them. Dispose of properly.
