- The venom from a single bite of a King Cobra is enough to kill a full grown adult elephant or 10-15 adult humans.
- The largest venomous snake among the cobras is the King Cobra. This snake can grow upto a length of 18 feet and if it stands upright, it can look you right in the eye!
- The cobra has excellent night vision and detects its prey with a superior sense of smell. The forked tongue is flicked in and out with which it catches on different smells.
- The anti-dote to a deadly cobra bite is the venom itself. Since many years, the venom has been tested and used as an effective anti-dote by doctors.
- The most common feature that comes to mind when a cobra is mentioned is its spread hood.
- The largest cobra is the King Cobra, which can grow upto 5.5 m or 18 feet long. The smallest cobras are the Ringhals and Mozambique spitting cobras, which grow upto lengths of 4 feet.
- Cobras don’t hunt on a regular basis. After a good meal, it may eat again after a couple of months, since the metabolism of the snake is very slow.
- Cobras don’t hew their prey; instead they swallow them whole.
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