Ali Khan Samsudin, was known as Malaysia's "snake king". He earned the title after living with 400 cobras, for 12 hours a day for 40 days, in a small room in the early 1990s. He also earned the title of "scorpion king" after his feat of living in a glass enclosure with 6,000 scorpion

Scorpion

Scorpions are predatory arthropod animals of the order Scorpiones within the class Arachnida. They have eight legs and are easily recognized by the pair of grasping claws and the narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back, ending with a venomous stinger...

s for 21 days which is listed in the 1998 Guinness Book of World Records.

He had a protege, Nur Malena Hassan, who has completed her own two record-breaking stunts and is now known as the "scorpion queen".

Death

Ali Khan died on December 1, 2006, after being bitten by a king cobra

King Cobra

The king cobra is the world's longest venomous snake, with a length up to 5.6 m . This species, which preys chiefly on other snakes, is found predominantly in forests from India through Southeast Asia to the Philippines and Indonesia...

. He is survived by his two wives and five children.

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