What are some of the king cobras physical adaptation?

Answer 1

Some of the king cobra's physical adaptations are its color, fangs, and size. Its color, which are brown, beige, and black, help a snake to blend in or hide n its habitat. A cobra's large size can intimate predators and also help it to catch prey. The long fangs bite and tear apart its prey, making it easier for a cobra to eat its prey. Some other adaptations are its hood and forked tongue.

Answer 2

King Cobras have eleven large scales at the crown of their heads. They also can flare out the sides of their head to make themselves look bigger. They can be very long and have a lot of venom.

Answer 3

They are very long snakes. Around 15 feet in average. They are black in color mostly and have yellow stripes in their body. They are venomous snakes in the world. A small head with large hood and their body is covered with scales. Their fangs are modified for auxiliary glands and their salivary glands are modified into poisonous glands.

Answer 4

General Information

King Cobra Scientific Cassification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Reptilia

Order: Squamata

Suborder: Serpentes

Family: Elapidae

Genus: Ophiophagus

Species: O. Hannah

The largest poisonous snake would be the King Cobra(Ophiophagus hanna), the Latin wordOphiophagus means "Snake-eater". The king cobra can reach a length of around 18.5ft (5.6388m) weighing over 40lbs. (18.1436kgs.) and lives in the Rainforest's and grasslands of Southeast Asia, India and China. Color is generally tan, olive-green or black with faint pale yellow cross bands, the females lay around 50 eggs in a constructed nest where they will guard and incubate them faithfully for 60 to 80 days, the young are called Hatchlings and about 1.5 ft. (50cm ) long at birth, the King cobra is very fast and agile with an average lifespan of about 20 years.

Although not the most toxic of poisonous snakes a king cobra can kill an elephant with one bite, the king cobra tracks by site and smell then kills it's prey by striking and injecting it with venom and swallowing it whole, it's preferred diet is mainly other venomous and non-venomous snakes but includes small reptiles, birds and amphibians as well. King Cobras are aggressive and will rear up to confront the intruder where most other cobras will slither away and hide. The only predators are the mongoose and man.

Answer 5

The king cobra has skin alone the side of its head which they flex outward creating the hood.There is a U shaped desing on the back of this hood. The cobra has none retractable fangs,unlike those of the pit vipers which has retractable fangs.Cobra babies poisionous at birth.Cobras have very good eye sight.Instead of coiling-up and strike , they rare-up and strike.An adult cobra has enough toxin in one bite to kill 30 men.

Answer 6

Cobras have a wide hood. They have huge fangs and are very venomous. They can lift 10 feet off the ground.

Answer 7

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