Sir Vass, a 7-foot venomous king cobra, is back in his enclosure after escaping from an aquarium in Stockholm last week. Nicknamed “Houdini,” the cobra escaped on Oct. 22 via a light fixture in the ceiling of its glass enclosure at the aquarium, part of the zoo at the Skansen open-air museum and park on Stockholm’s Djurgarden island. As a result of an intensive search with X-ray machines, “Houdini” was located in a confined space near the terrarium in the insulation between two walls. Holes were drilled into the walls where the snake was hiding but the cobra disappeared from the view of the X-ray cameras early Sunday. It turned out the snake had given up its freedom ride and crawled back to its terrarium. And all of Stockholm breathed a sigh of relief.
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