Toddler chews head off snake

“We rushed in and found the baby with a snake in his mouth, chewing it. It was really scary, just horrible,” the boy’s aunt, Yasmin Shahin, said.

A neighbour who had rushed to see what was going on yanked the half-dead reptile out of the boys mouth and killed it, she said.

“When he pulled it out, Imad started crying,” she said, describing the snake’s head as “very badly chewed” when it emerged from the boys mouth.

They immediately checked the child for any bite marks but found none, with physicians at Rambam hospital in Haifa confirming he was unharmed.

“Doctors at the hospital told us the snake was really poisonous but that we were very lucky because they release less venom in the winter,” she said.

Dr Boaz Shacham, an expert on amphibians and reptiles, told AFP that from looking at images of the smashed-up serpent online, it appeared to be a coin-marked snake (hemorrhois nummifer), a non-venomous species which resembles a viper.

Such snakes grow up to three feet in length, he stated suggesting it was a “very young” specimen.

“It probably did not bite the child because of the cold,” stated Dr Shacham who is the head of the herpetology collection at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

“They are not really active in winter.”

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