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King cobra By: Ira

King cobra By: Ira. Emmett Louis Till Academy Third Grade Room 507. Anatomy. Length: up to 18 ft Weight: up to 20 lbs Body Parts: no legs, long tongue, fangs Coloring/Skin: yellow, brown, or green, or black Slow/Fast: fast. Habitat. Malaysia, India, China, Africa,

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King cobra By: Ira

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  1. King cobraBy: Ira • Emmett Louis Till Academy • Third Grade • Room 507

  2. Anatomy • Length: up to 18 ft • Weight: up to 20 lbs • Body Parts: no legs, long tongue, fangs • Coloring/Skin: yellow, brown, or green, or black • Slow/Fast: fast

  3. Habitat • Malaysia, India, China, Africa, • Preferred climate? In warm weather • Preferred terrain? On dry and flat lands • Is it nocturnal? no • Where does it spend most of it’s time? In forests • Does it do different things depending on the season? Only hibernates in the winter

  4. Diet • The King Cobra's diet is mainly composed of other snakes: both non-venomous snakes such as pythons and venomous snakes including kraits and Indian Cobras • When food is scarce, King Cobras may also feed on other small vertebrates such as lizards, birds, and rodents • After a large meal the snake may live for many months without another one due to its slow metabolic rate

  5. Predators • Mongoose (they have some resistance to the neurotoxins) • It will first try to flee • If all else fails, it will flatten its upper body by spreading its ribs, forming the distinctive cobra hood about its neck, and emit a high-pitched hiss, sometimes with feigned closed-mouth strikes.

  6. Interesting Facts • It has acids in its stomach • Receive chemical information ("smell") via their forked tongues, which pick up scent particles and transfer them to a special sensory receptor (Jacobson's Organ) located in the roof of its mouth • the King Cobra will begin to swallow its struggling prey whole while its toxins begin the digestion of its victim • Is the world's longest venomous snake • The venom of the King Cobra is primarily neurotoxic, and the snake is fully capable of killing a human with a single bite

  7. Interesting Facts • It has two short, fixed fangs in the front of the mouth which channel venom into the prey like hypodermic needles • King Cobras shed their skin, typically four to six times per year as adults and every month as juveniles • Despite the King Cobra's fearsome reputation and deadly bite, it is a shy and reclusive animal, avoiding confrontation with humans as often as possible

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