The Austria Press Agency says a woman found the sealed cardboard box in a park on Tuesday. "I picked it up, shook it
-- and something moved inside," the unidentified woman was quoted as saying.
The poison of the monocle cobra can kill within an hour, so experts at the snake's new home in a Vienna terrarium and aquarium are treating it as lethal, pending further examination.
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