Everyone calls him Yusof Ular (Malay for snake), and why not? Since he was six, Mr Yusof Mohamed Kassim has been taming and handling the reptiles that make most people squeal. He remembers helping ...

This iconic snake, with its bulbous head and red, yellow, and black bands, is famous as much for its potent venom as for the many rhymes—"Red and yellow, kill a fellow; red and black ...