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YOU'VE ADDER BIG SCARE
Watch terrifying moment giant, deadly cobra slithers across golf course leaving onlookers stunned
GOLFERS were rattled as a giant, deadly cobra slithered across a fairway.
The bird-eating beast brazenly swung along in front of awed onlookers between a bunker and green in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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Its venomous bite can cause severe breathing problems in humans or even kill if untreated.
reported observer Scott Howden as saying: "I just left the snake and let it be on its way so I presume it’s still hanging around the golf course."
In fact, it merely added to a rich hiss-tory of wild and wonderful creatures exploiting greens and fairways across the globe.
Just last month, Sunsport explored Skukuza Golf Club in South Africa's Kruger National Park, where hyenas eat baboons, lions prowl at night and elephants, leopards and giraffes roam.
Not surprisingly, it labels itself as the world's wildest golf course.
But Florida's Valencia Golf and Country Club matched it for eye-popping spectacle in November.
SunSport told how a huge alligator waddled across the course as it pondered a dip in the lake.
But now you can adder new one to the list - with the 1.5-metre slaloming snake in Zimbabwe potentially far more dangerous for humans.
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It was thought to be a snouted cobra, extremely poisonous and occasionally reaching lengths of 2.5m.
A bite on a human would at first cause pain and local swelling.
But it could prove lethal without medical care.
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Fortunately for golfers, it prefers less sporty targets like rodents, birds, lizards and other snakes - and even more helpfully does most of its hunting at night.
On top of that, it is only likely to strike a person if it feels threatened - as it would much rather spend the daytime basking in the sun.
So perhaps it is more intelligent after all than we give it credit for.