Quote Originally Posted by LEGION
Well the cobra doesn't win for sure, as its mouth is sewed shut and the fangs are probably cut out, as is typical in that part of the world. People make money off tourists doing that, and that particular practice is banned in alot of the country, as it is inhumane..

But those people need money so practices like that will always go on. We were debating about that video on a reptile forum a few months ago. Funny, the little bit of money they might make will probably need to be used to take the baby to the doctor after handling that wild animal, with salmonella being a risk to handling reptiles from the wild, and also being that the animal was probably kept in a very moist, unclean basket. And not to mention the germs from the kid crawling around on the ground.

Idiots. I would have paid alot of money for that particular cobra, it is called a spectacled cobra{naja naja} and was one of the finest examples I've seen. Too bad actually.
I hate when people do that S*** to animals. Like you said though, in poor parts of the world they are not concerned about such a thing because they are too busy trying to survive themselves by any means possible, cruelty to other living things is a non-factor in their mind.

Same goes for those dirt-poor farmers in brazil who are slashing and burning the rainforest down. They are destroying all of these resources, plants, animals, habitats...but they don't care because they are trying to feed their families by any means possible. It is hard to blame them, at the same time things are being destroyed which can never be replaced.

By the time humans establish a colony on Mars or wherever, the earth is going to be a wasteland with only a few species of insects surviving