Famous Southern California white cobra gets name: Adhira

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A white monocled cobra that briefly became a national celebrity after it roamed a Southern California neighborhood for several days in September now has a new name.

The San Diego Zoo tells the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/1xEHdOj) that the cobra will be called Adhira, which in Hindi means lightning.

The Times says Adhira came in first in an online poll to find a name for the venomous cobra that was captured in Thousand Oaks and, after a period of quarantine, joined the zoo's Reptile House.

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[Demeter]

1. I suppose that's better than Nagini

who was more likely a python, anyway.

Although Rikki-Tikki-Tavi fought Nag and Nagaina, and they were cobras.

[cosmicone]

4. Nag is cobra in Sanskrit and Nagini (Nagin) is the feminine form. n/t

[eggplant]

2. That's a name that sticks with you. n/t

[WhiteAndNerdy]

3. That's a great name for a white snake. nt

[question everything]

5. How many snakes have their own name?

Well, I suppose, once you've made it to the news, with a "hashtag" probably, you've made it.

[hatrack]

6. Bummer! I thought they'd name it "David Coverdale"!!