A 12 ft long King Cobra wandered into a village in southern India due to the recent drought and rescuers successfully fed the giant snake water from a bottle in this rare and thrilling footage.

Interestingly, despite the word “cobra” in its common name, this snake is not a member of the Naja genus (the “true cobras”), which contains most cobra species, but is the sole member of its own genus, Ophiophagus. [source]