A man in east India was shocked to discover one night that a cobra has snuck into his mosquito net while he was sleeping.

Parsuram Behera, a resident of a village near Kendrapara in Odisha, woke up at night on December 18 and felt something crawling up his leg.

He put on the light to check and saw that a four-feet-long cobra had sneaked inside his mosquito net.

Behera fled the room raising an alarm, which woke up his entire family and a few neighbours as well. They called Snake Helpline, and a volunteer, Nalinikanta Das, went to the house and saw a spectacled cobra sitting on the bed with its hood fully raised.

A small crowd had gathered at that hour to see the snake. Nalini carefully rescued the deadly cobra with the help of a snake hook and later released it in a natural habitat.

Subhendu Mallik, General Secretary of Snake Helpline, said: "As the temperature is dropping the cobra may have entered the house searching for a warm place. Snakes are ectothermic or cold blooded animals and hence cannot tolerate winter.”

Parsuram Behera, a resident of a village near Kendrapara in eastern India, woke up at night on December 18 and felt something crawling up his leg.

He put on the light to check and saw that a four-feet-long cobra had sneaked inside his mosquito net.

Behera fled the room raising an alarm, which woke up his entire family and a few neighbours as well. They called Snake Helpline, and a volunteer, Nalinikanta Das, went to the house and saw a spectacled cobra sitting on the bed with its hood fully raised.

A small crowd had gathered at that hour to see the snake. Nalini carefully rescued the deadly cobra with the help of a snake hook and later released it in a natural habitat.

Subhendu Mallik, General Secretary of Snake Helpline, said: "As the temperature is dropping the cobra may have entered the house searching for a warm place. Snakes are ectothermic or cold blooded animals and hence cannot tolerate winter.”