Habitat

• King Cobras live in Northern India, East to Southern China.
• They Prefer Streams in dense or open forest, bamboo thickets, adjacent agricultural and dense mangrove swamps.
• They often stay near streams, where the temperature and humidity are relatively constant.
• They spend almost a fourth of their time in trees or bushes.
  

  

Diet

• King Cobras normally restricts its diet to cold-blooded animals, usually other snakes.
• Some king cobras develop a rigid diet of one type to snake and will refuse any other type of food.
• They will eat Asian rat snakes, dhamans and pythons up to about 10 feet in length

Venom

• The venom consists of mainly neurotoxins, these toxins affect the central nervous system.
• King cobras are capable of delivering a fatal bite, the effects of the bite will include: severe pain, blurred vision, vertigo, and drowsiness.
• This will eventually lead to paralysis, if the envenomation is serious, it will progress to cardiovascular collapse, which will cause the victim to fall into a coma.
• Death will soon follow due to respiratory failure.

Reproduction

Behavior

Communication