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A Cape cobra raiding a communal nest of sociable weavers [9] Verreaux's eagle-owl with Cape cobra prey This species of cobra is a feeding generalist. [ 7 ] It feeds on a wide spectrum of prey, including other snakes, rodents, lizards, birds, and carrion.
Herbivory is of extreme ecological importance and prevalence among insects.Perhaps one third (or 500,000) of all described species are herbivores. [4] Herbivorous insects are by far the most important animal pollinators, and constitute significant prey items for predatory animals, as well as acting as major parasites and predators of plants; parasitic species often induce the formation of galls.
Several other elapid species are also called "cobras", such as the king cobra and the rinkhals, but neither is a true cobra, in that they do not belong to the genus Naja, but instead each belong to monotypic genera Hemachatus (the rinkhals) [1] and Ophiophagus (the king cobra/hamadryad). [2] [3]
This article lists plants commonly found in the wild, which are edible to humans and thus forageable. Some are only edible in part, while the entirety of others are edible. Some plants (or select parts) require cooking to make them safe for consumption.
Other species range in a wider variety of habitats, such as the Springbok in arid shrublands, semidesert and grassland, and the Greater Kudu in thicket, open woodlands and riverine vegetation. South Africa has a wealth of small antelope species, such as the aforementioned klipspringer and Cape grysbok, common duiker, blue duiker, steenbok and ...
The rinkhals has a varied diet. Its main prey is toads, [8] but it also eats small mammals, amphibians, and other reptiles. [10] Another difference between the rinkhals and the African cobras, is that they are ovoviviparous. [6] They give birth to 20–35 live young, but as many as 65 young have been recorded. [8]
Darlingtonia californica / d ɑːr l ɪ ŋ ˈ t oʊ n i ə k æ l ɪ ˈ f ɔːr n ɪ k ə / —also called the California pitcher plant, the Oregon pitcher plant, cobra lily or cobra plant—is a species of carnivorous plant in the new world pitcher plant family, Sarraceniaceae. It is the sole species within its monotypic genus, Darlingtonia.
The Cape coral snake is a small elapid, which means that it is a part of a family of venomous snakes that are usually found within tropical or sub-tropical regions around the globe. It has an enlarged rostral scale, which is the scale located at the front of the snout above the mouth opening on the snake.