Man wearing snake, 1930s


This young man, possibly a junior member of the Zoology Department, is posing with a king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) that presumably had just arrived at the Museum.


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Photo credit: © Natural History Museum, London / Alamy / Afripics
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