The king cobra is called a snake eater, subsequently the scientific title Ophiophagus (Greek for snake consuming) and feeds almost solely on completely different snakes.
Ang Yang Yang, a wildlife photographer in Singapore captured collectively along with his digital digital camera what he known as a lifer, seeing not one nevertheless two king cobras (Ophiophagus hannah) in a cannibalisitic assault. Yang posted his photographs and video on the Singapore Wildlife Sightings Fb internet web page.
“Because of the alert of a king cobra sighted in Windsor Nature Park this morning, I decided to take a look at my luck since I’ve not observed this king sooner than. Lorenzo acquired right here rapidly after and easily as he was about to depart, observed an prolonged snake throughout the stream. I rushed over and observed a lot of metres away.. Wait it’s not one nevertheless two (!!) king cobras and the one throughout the water was the smaller one,” Yang wrote on Fb.
“The two have been engaged in an unbelievable tussle for hours and the wrestle continued on land after which once more throughout the stream nevertheless finally the larger cobra was all too sturdy and the smaller cobra succumbed, turning right into a snack. Solely the second time the king cobra is observed consuming its private kind in Singapore so what an unbelievable report and nice choice to secure a lifer!!!” Yang talked about.
The King cobra is the world’s largest venomous snake. Yang described the larger one to be about 3 1/2 to 5 meters in dimension whereas the smaller one was about 2 meters in dimension. In October, scientists reclassified the species into three subspecies together with Ophiophagus hannah. So 4 king cobra species make up the Ophiophagus genus. The three subspecies are O. bungarus, O. kaalinga, O. salvatana.
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The king cobra is called a snake eater, subsequently the scientific title Ophiophagus (Greek for snake consuming) and feeds almost solely on completely different snakes. They seem to be a terrestrial species and reside in dense highland forests, open woods and pasturelands near our our bodies of water. They’re the largest venomous snake on the earth, usually exceeding 16 toes in dimension.