ocr: Elusive by nature, a king cobra some 15 feet long surprises my assistant, Ola, and me as we wait in a creek- side blind to photo- graph wild boars. Wien it glides behind stones nearby, Ola rumns pale. "Where isit?" he whispers. "Close," Isay. Know- ing this largest of ven- omous: snakes will not attack us unless pro- voked, I wait calmly: The cobra: reappears, Ishoot tw. frames, and it's gone. LA Malaysia's Secret Realm 129
