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Cape cobra (Naja nivea). Snake / Indian cobra, or Indian spectacled cobra / Naja naja / Reptile / Serpentes. King cobra, the world's largest venomous snake. king cobra
Watch a Herpestes mongoose attack and kill its common prey, a venomous Asian cobra
Indian cobra, or Indian spectacled cobra (Naja naja) Black-necked cobra (Naja nigricollis) Mozambique spitting cobra cobra cape cobra
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cobra, any of various species of highly venomous snakes, most of which expand the neck ribs to form a hood. While the hood is characteristic of cobras, not all of them are closely related. Cobras are found from southern Africa through southern Asia to islands of Southeast Asia. Throughout their range, different species are favourites of snake charmers, who frighten them into assuming the upreared defense posture. The snake sways in response to the movement and perhaps also to the music of the charmer, who knows how to avoid the relatively slow strike and who may have removed the snake’s ...(100 of 491 words)

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