The scientific name of the king cobra "ophiophagus hannah" and the English name "king cobra" are very famous snakes in the circle of snake lovers, and are often affectionately referred to as "kc".
Although the name of kc and cobra are only one word apart, but the biological classification of kc has its own separate genus, known as the king cobra genus, it and cobras are both venomous snakes, but belong to the two types of snakes, at least from the size of the difference is very large, the relationship is also farther.
King cobras are mainly distributed in the eastern part of China at about 25 degrees north latitude, in Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Fujian, Zhejiang and southwest Sichuan and other places are distributed, in foreign countries mainly in Southeast Asia and South Asia countries, in India King Cobra is also very common.
King cobras prefer to inhabit tropical rainforest mountains and forest edges on plains, and are often found in some villages close to mountain forests. On October 13, a few days ago, near the ancient city of Dali in Yunnan Province, local residents found a king cobra, which has been successfully captured by the police and firefighters, and has been sent to the breeding site for shelter and rescue.
Measured at 3.3 meters in length and 8 kilograms in weight, this king cobra is the largest wild king cobra caught in Dali so far. According to relevant information, the longest record of the king cobra in China is 3.8 meters, and the longest record abroad is 5.5 meters. Therefore, the king cobra that was captured this time is really rare, and it can be called a giant king cobra.
The development and evolution of snakes on the earth has been more than 100 million years, and it is currently distributed in most areas except the polar regions on the earth, and there are about 450 species of snake poisoning snakes in the world. The distribution of venomous snakes is more in Australia and Africa, and the inland Taipan snake, the king of poisonous snakes on the earth, is distributed in the central region of Australia.
Although the inland Taipan snake is known as the king of poisonous snakes, it is actually a very timid creature that never actively attacks humans, although it is said that a single detox can poison 250,000 mice or 100 adults or two elephants, but its guts are too small.
The king cobra is completely different, it is also known as the snake star, as long as it can eat into the stomach, many creatures will become their prey, the king cobra not only eats other poisonous snakes, non-venomous snakes or pythons, etc., and even the king cobra will fight between them, who loses may become the opponent's prey.
King cobras are more intelligent, in the face of non-venomous snakes and poisonous snakes that are a threat to themselves are completely non-stop practices, in the face of venomous snakes they will be careful, trying to find the right time to kill with one blow, while releasing their own venom, hoping to solve the prey as soon as possible. But if it is a non-venomous snake, the king cobra will not easily release its own venom.
In terms of size, the king cobra of more than 3 meters is already comparable to the common python, and most snakes, especially some smaller snakes, are not opponents of the king cobra.
One of the horrors of the king cobra lies in its "killer" name, the king cobra is larger, even more than some ordinary non-venomous pythons. A larger body means that a mouthful of venom is very high, and it is not in the forefront in terms of half of the lethal amount (ld50), but it is better than the amount of venom in that mouth.
Secondly, the king cobra is a kind of "fierce" temperament, it is not as timid as the inland Taipan snake, in the folk king cobra is called the mountain peak, mainly because they are faster and go without a trace, and it is said that they like to chase people very much. When encountering snakes in the wild, you must flee the scene as soon as possible, because many snakes are very territorial, especially the king cobra.
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