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The king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is a species complex of snakes endemic to Asia.With an average of 3.18 to 4 m (10.4 to 13.1 ft) and a record length of 5.85 m (19.2 ft), [2] it is the world's longest venomous snake and among the heaviest.
King brown; King cobra; King snake. California kingsnake; Desert kingsnake; Grey-banded kingsnake; North eastern king snake; Prairie kingsnake; Scarlet kingsnake; Speckled kingsnake; Krait. Banded krait; Blue krait; Black krait; Burmese krait; Ceylon krait; Indian krait; Lesser black krait [1] Malayan krait; Many-banded krait; Northeastern hill ...
The longest venomous snake, with a length up to 18.5–18.8 ft (5.6–5.7 m), is the king cobra, [1] while contesters for the heaviest title include the Gaboon viper and the Eastern diamondback rattlesnake. All of these three species reach a maximum mass in the range of 6–20 kg (13–44 lb).
Ophiophagus bungarus, the Sunda king cobra, is a species of king cobra that inhabits areas south of the Kra Isthmus or land bridge joining the Malay Peninsula with the rest of southeast Asia or Indochina.
The King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is the longest venomous snake in the world, and it can inject very high volumes of venom in a single bite. The venom LD 50 is 1.80 mg/kg SC according to Broad et al. (1979). [72] The mean value of subcutaneous LD 50 of five wild-caught king cobras in Southeast Asia was determined as 1.93 mg/kg. [73]
This is the terrifying moment a King Cobra attacks a woman as she cooks dinner. The woman was stirring durian in a gas-powered wok outside the family home on 7 September, when the 12ft long black ...
The eastern coral snake or American cobra (Micrurus fulvius), which also does not rear upwards and produce a hood when threatened [4]: p.30 The false water cobra (Hydrodynastes gigas) is the only "cobra" species that is not a member of the Elapidae. It does not rear upwards, produces only a slight flattening of the neck when threatened, and is ...
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