King Cobra

11/08/2022

King cobras sometimes live near humans. The reason is that in Asia, large-scale agricultural production has led to a significant reduction in the tropical forests in which king cobras live; at the same time, the crops attract rodents, and the rodents attract comparatively small snakes, which in turn make up the diet of the king cobra.

10/08/2022

King cobras can raise their heads vertically up to a third of the front of their body, they are also able to move in this position. When one king cobra meets another, it tries to touch the top of its head to show its dominant position, and the snake, which it has touched, immediately ducks down and crawls away .

09/08/2022

King cobras like to hide in caves and burrows, and also crawl up trees. Some snakes prefer a certain territory, but some can move tens of kilometers (which was established using tracking using implanted radio beacons).

08/08/2022

The largest poisonous snake lives in various types of tropical forests, mangrove and bamboo thickets, in tall grass meadows, in India it is sometimes found on tea plantations . It is active both in the daytime and at night, hunts other snakes, as well as reptiles and birds, eats bird eggs, there are known cases of attacks on humans.

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Life expectancy is over 30 years. Grows throughout life.
The king cobra is distinguished into an independent genus Ophiophagus, belonging to the subfamily Elapinae of the asp family (Elapidae).

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Individual specimens can reach a length of 5.6 m , on average, the size of an adult cobra does not exceed 3-4 meters. The largest known specimen, originally caught in Negeri Sembilan in 1937, was subsequently kept at the London Zoo, its length was 5.71 m .
The range of the king cobra is the tropical forests of South and Southeast Asia (India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia and the Philippines).

03/08/2022

King cobra , or hamadryad (lat. Ophiophagus hannah) is the largest poisonous snake. It is a common misconception that this is the most venomous snake in the world, although this is McCoy's taipan, with venom 180 times more potent than cobra venom, as well as some other species.

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