Vienna - Experts are taking no chances with an Asian cobra even though it was found in a box with the message "I am no longer venomous."
The Austria Press Agency says a woman found the sealed cardboard box in a park on Tuesday.
"I picked it up, shook it - and something moved inside," the unidentified woman was quoted as saying.
The poison of the monocle cobra can kill within an hour so experts at the snake's new home in a Vienna terrarium and aquarium are treating it as lethal, pending further examination. - Sapa-AP