Thursday, February 17, 2011

King Cobra

Once upon a time there was a village in in India. The villagers live happy in their huts, they all were formers. In day they work hard and at night they seat together for lunch. Every family use to make a fire and seat around it preparing meal, eating it and discussing all about the day what they had done by the each family member. Some times the head of the family tells a story, one story that was very popular and horrible base on Hundred percent truth was a story of a Ghost, when he becomes hungry he moves in to the forest in the shape of a very large snake some one asked "How can we identify that this is not a snake but a Ghost" the reply was amazing, "When Ghost snake walks standing tall, he had killed so many peoples when the disturbed him he also chased them and killed them.
                     The story was right and true but not totally, the Ghost they were talking about was nothing else but a King Cobra. A king cobra can stand as tall as it can look direct in to a man's eye. The king cobra has the longest length in all the venomous snakes of Twenty feet long. The king cobra can take his body's one third part in standing position and in this position he can move forwarded in order to attack and freight his opponent. Their venom is not so much stronger with compared to other venomous snakes, but they can kill a Buffalo in a single bite kill 20 people, fortunately king cobras are shy and they avoid humans, but they are extremely aggressive when they are disturbed.
King cobras normally live  in the rain forests and in the some plain areas of India, southern China, and Southeast Asia. They usually are seen on the trees, on land, and in water also, king cobra are fond of eating other snakes, venomous and nonvenomous, lizards, eggs, and other small prey is also seen in the diet of king cobra. King cobra's an other habit which makes him different form other snakes is they use to build nests for their eggs, whom they give extreme security until the babies are born.
 No doubt the king cobra is a large and very powerful snake and he got fierce nature. The king cobra can be identify from other snakes from the size and from the hood marks. The king cobra has a strip on the neck just like a symbol. The snakes can not hear than how can they deduct their prey and are able to hunt. The answer is amazingly amazing. King cobra and other snakes catch scent particulars through there out and in coming tong which picks particulars of the prey from the tow ends of the tong and takes it to the special censors which are located in the upper side of the snakes head by that process the snake can find his prey's location and is able to hunt.
Helpful sites:- http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/king-cobra.html
                     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Cobra

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