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Boop the cobra getting venom milked

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Boop is an albino monocled cobra. He works on a venom line and his venom helps with research and to create pain treatment medicine. This video was taken shortly after the hurricane that devastated the Florida keys. He had been put back in another enclosure so we were making sure it was him. Boop is a great cobra to video he likes to hood up and put on a show before he gets milked. Ray Hunter is the man milking him. He's been in reptile business for over 30 years and has milked thousands of snakes. He's also been bit quite a few times and has built up an immunity to the venom through self invenomation. The snakes are milked twice a month to allow them to build up their venom supply. The snakes aren't harmed and the venom helps people all around the world.

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