Austin Stevens got bitten by a snouted cobra back in the day whilst working at Hartbeestpoortdam for Jack Seal.
They were trying to raise funds so they could buy a female gorilla or chimp (can't remeber) for the "lone male". He did this by "cage sitting" Not excatly sure but hey had about 32 or so venomous snakes in the confined space where he did the "sit in"
News reporters went in one day to speak to him and to take photographs. Just as they snapped a shot the cobra on his lap gave him a bite to his fore arm...(They had the actual bite photograph in the news paper).. You can also see it in his book...snakes in my bed