Zoho CEO's close encounter with 12-foot King Cobra in village

Last updated on: 21 September,2021 04:59 pm

Zoho CEO's close encounter with 12-foot King Cobra in village

(Web Desk) – Sridhar Vembu, the CEO and founder of Zoho Corporation, has posted a tweet going viral, in which, he encountered with 12-foot King Cobra in Tamil Nadu Village.

He tweeted two pictures of — hold your breath — a 12-foot king cobra that visited him recently. In one of the photos, we can see Vembu and a group of forest rangers holding the snake.

He captioned it, “A rare 12 feet long King Cobra paid us a visit”. He added, “Our awesome local forest rangers arrived and caught it for release in the nearby hills. Here is the brave me attempting to touch it. A very auspicious day!”

The post received over 3.4k likes within a few hours of being posted — no surprises there!

— Sridhar Vembu (@svembu) September 21, 2021

 

— Gajamani (@gajamani) September 21, 2021

One person criticised the snake-spotting celebration in a now-deleted tweet, to which Mr Vembu responded by saying that the presence of snakes indicates a healthy ecosystem. "If we make the whole ecosystem sterile, it won t be just the snakes that we will lose," he warned.

— Sridhar Vembu (@svembu) September 21, 2021

Some users were stunned by the size of the snake. A user commented, “That looks really big and scary.”

— Rakesh Bhosale (@i_rakeshbhosale) September 21, 2021

Another user said that the snake could give anyone a “panic attack”. “If I was the one to have spotted such a large but magnificent creature, I d have a major panic attack,” the comment read.

If I was the one to have spotted such a large but magnificent creature, I d have a major panic attack.

— SinSinWati (@Sinsinwati) September 21, 2021

A user named Arun Kumar tweeted that the people weren t careful enough while handling the cobra: “Unprofessional way of handling the snake. There was no reason to hold the snake like that for photo ops. Their vertebrae are delicate and can easily get damaged.”

— arunkumar (@tweet_arunkumar) September 21, 2021

Then there were a series of funny comments where users took the photos in a lighter vein. One of them, Deepak Sugandhi, wrote, "This occasion should be celebrated by launching a new app/service "Zoho Cobra". Now we have to figure out what that app will be for”.