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In 2003, hundreds of snake charmers gathered at the temple of Charkhi Dadri in Haryana to bring international attention to their plight. [10] In December of the following year, a group of snake charmers stormed the legislature of the Indian state of Odisha with their demands while brandishing their animals. The Indian government and various ...
Their coloration and markings can vary considerably. They prey primarily on small rodents. They possess medically significant venom, although the mortality rate for untreated bites on humans is relatively low (~ 5–10%, in endemic regions under 1%). Like other spitting cobras, they can eject venom from their fangs when threatened (one drop ...
Just like most snakes in the Elapid clade, spitting cobras inject their venom through a bite in order to kill their prey. Spitting was evolved as a defense mechanism to deter predators; even if a Spitting cobra blinds a threat, that is not enough to kill the attacker and therefore spitting cobras can also inject venom directly.
The snake strikes at its prey and holds on, pulling the prey into its coils or, in the case of very large prey, pulling itself onto the prey. The snake then wraps one or two loops around the prey, forming a constriction coil. The snake monitors the prey's heartbeat to ascertain it is dead.
The rinkhals has ample control over its venom glands, and can accurately spit venom at ranges up to three meters [8]. Rinkhals are also known to fake death, a behavior seen in other snakes such as the genus Heterodon. Rinkhals engaging in thanatosis will roll over on their backs, open their mouths, and stick their toungues out. [8]
Snake charmers with their cobras in a wicker basket are a common sight in many parts of India only during the Nag Panchami or Naagula Chavithi festival. The cobra is deaf to the snake charmer's pipe, but follows the visual cue of the moving pipe and it can sense the ground vibrations from the snake charmer's tapping.
Forest cobras will feed on a wide variety of prey, [4] including amphibians, fish, other snakes, monitor lizards and other lizards, bird eggs, rodents, and other small mammals. It has been recorded as taking mudskippers , and in west Africa, one specimen had eaten an African giant shrew , an insectivore with a smell so noxious, most other ...
Like all other Naja species, this snake can flatten its head and neck into a hood. The head and hood are uniformly dark brown or black. The venom of Naja nigricincta can cause massive hemorrhaging, necrosis and paralysis in bite victims. These snakes can also spit their venom, hitting their enemies with great accuracy and causing temporary or ...