I can't blame you for doubting, however if you would have seen the episodes with the haje I think you'd be pretty convinced as well. I had a rescued venomoid monocled for quite some time, so I got used to the sunken head look. If you compare two snakes of the same species or type, one that has had a full adenectomy and the other is intact, do you not think you could tell the two apart? I do realize there are some "surgeons" out there that are quite skilled at using implants and such, but it was apparent that this haje had a full adenectomy and exhibited the sunken head appearance. To further back my story up, like I said the "snake expert" that was handling the cobra was taking some great liberties that one probably wouldn't do with an intact snake. When the snake turned and charged him as he was grabbing for its tail, if it didn't at least nose-butt him I'd be surprised. Anyway, I certainly don't have any other facts to back up my observations other than to just say to try to catch one of those episodes yourself and see if the cobra doesn't look like a venomoid. As far as AP using nice-looking venomoids rather than crappy looking ones, those might have been the vipers and rattler they used, but to me they looked intact.

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