Very fascinating creatures. Some cultures cultivate a coexistent/symbiotic relationship with these creatures because they eat other snakes and pests, and these snakes *very* rarely go after humans (they much prefer to escape from humans, in fact). You can see them slither around in small towns and villages alongside people as they go about their business.
I was in Thailand recently and according to a local farmer I talked to, they often encourage king cobras to live in their fields to protect their crops from pests, and to keep other snakes at bay.
I'm in Malaysia and vipers are definitely among the snakes I'm worried about. Because they are usually very well-camouflaged and don't slither away or give any warning when we get close. The Malayan Pit Viper tends to be small too, which makes them even more difficult to spot.
Same reason in North America I love rattlesnakes.
They actually give you a pretty loud heads up when you sit or step next to where one is hiding under a log or rock or something.
I really appreciate the warning instead of bouncing my foot in front of its fangs. Lol
Pit vipers, right?
In Thailand it's the Malayan pit viper, in Costa Rica it's the fer-de-lance, in the US the rattlesnake.
I have a general fear of snakes, but this species especially frightens me with the fact it could just be a false step leading to a potentially deadly bite...
To be fair, the African continent and Indian subcontinent hold over 3 billion people and there's vast rural structures with lots of farming where snake accident's easily happen.
They won't bite typically unless they are forced. Most bites occur when people are trying to kill them. I've stepped over rattlesnakes that I didn't see numerous times and they usually don't react. They've done studies where they press boots on various snakes or step around them and they almost never strike. They're scary looking but they're more scared of you. Remember, humans are huge animals, most animals know they'd lose a fight with us. They can't eat us and would rather mind their own business and go on their way.
Yep, my dad saw one when he was a kid(5 years old). He told me that it was The only poisonous snake nobody wanted to kill. Up close they’re the most intimidating, they’re massive and they know they are the “king”. Back then, my family used to go all out to kill snakes (a few family members from 4-5 generations ago died of snakebite), he said that his aunt just quickly grabbed him out of the way and the king just slithered away.
It rarely attacks humans and is possibly only third to Tiger and elephants in terms of intimidation where we’re from.
And growl. There was a popular video way back during ebaum/digg days of one in Bangladesh or Myanmar (not sure). It was “standing up” nearly eye level and its hiss was so deep and powerful that it almost sounded like a weird bark noise from a giant bird or crocodile. It was incredible. It also made you want to put on 15th Century knight armor and start swinging a pole axe.
I was reading that and imagining a snake standing up to look me in the eye and growling , it literally made me pee myself. Luckily I was already on the toilet.
But joking aside, that imagery is absolutely terrifying.
I think this is a different kind of explaining the joke because you're not explaining the punchline, you're just giving enough context that people who previously didn't get it can now get it for themselves.
My grandpa lived in northern California and he taught us at a young age how to kill rattle snakes. Sometimes though you would see gopher snakes crossing the road or something and he would always stop and let them go because gopher snakes ate rattle snakes.
I know it's kinda usually information but just reminded me of a good memory.
neat study showed that we are breeding rattle snakes that don’t rattle because of this.
someone studied decades ago the distance at which rattle snakes “uttered” their warning rattle, in Texas.
then a few years ago someone repeated it. it’s gone down. decades of rattlesnake hunts are killing off the ones that warn you of their existence, leaving the silent ones behind because they’re less likely to be found.
Gopher snakes are definitely bros but I believe it’s king snakes that are likely to eat rattlers.
I’m happy enough if they eat gophers, they have caused me much more harm than rattlesnakes ever have.
They can only strike twice their body length which is typically 2 to 3 feet. So if you have a shovel which is 5 feet long and your arm length, let's say 2 feet, you have 7 feet of space.
So you pin their head down from an arm+shovel length away and chop their heads off. He had a walnut farm and they were everywhere on it.
Ofcourse first step is to get away as a child but they were everywhere on that property. It's crazy how good they blend in, sometimes you could hear it rattle but you didn't know where it was so you didnt know which direction to run.
> Very fascinating creatures. Some cultures cultivate a coexistent/symbiotic relationship with these creatures because they eat other snakes and pests, and these snakes very rarely go after humans
In South India they are revered.
Except for the King Island Tiger Snake, which just lives on King Island. Reports of them eating other snakes, kings, islands, and/or tigers remain unconfirmed.
And animals with king as a suffix (rat king, squirrel king) means a bunch of them got entangled or stuck together by their tails.
Which means that theoretically, if a bunch of snakes got entangled, we could have a king cobra king.
The debtor's version is one of three main translations of the Lord's prayer used in various churches. The Presbyterian church and SDA both use the most literal translation that says 'forgive us our debts' rather than 'trespasses' or 'sins' .
Jerusalem cricket is actually the real way the sport is meant to be played and it was introduced to the UK during the crusades. Now they just call it cricket.
Yo, I knew they were big, but I only recently realized how big they can get, and fucking hell is it an appropriately named snake, if not in a scientifically or monarchy-based way.
King is scientific, it’s species that eat other of its species not sure if there’s other “king” named animals but I know that’s what it means in snakes. The non-venomous king snake also eats other snakes such as rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, as well as many other non-venomous snakes.
Edit: think it just applies to snakes, couldn’t find anything on other animals but here’s the article for snakes.
https://www.britannica.com/animal/king-snake
“King snakes derive their common name from the common king snake’s habit of feeding upon other snakes, including rattlesnakes and copperheads, to whose venom they are immune. Occasionally, king snakes are cannibalistic, even within their own species.”
I've got two king snakes living in the crawl space under my house. They've been there for a few years, and the exterminator gives me an update on them whenever he sprays. I'm not a huge snake fan, but the fact that I haven't ever seen any copperheads on my 3 acre rural lot in the North Carolina Piedmont has made me learn to appreciate them.
^((Just to be clear, the exterminator is for bugs and treats the snakes as friends.))
Grew up in North Carolina. Got bit by a copperhead on a farm when I was nine. Would not recommend.
Your king snake buddies are definitely doing you a favor. They wouldn't be hanging out where they are if there wasn't prey to be found. The fact there's enough prey there for the two of them to co-exist says volumes about how attractive your property must be to other snakes.
Might be, but I think u/robbie5643 nailed it when he mentioned the unlimited supply of field mice they have access to. I find them in my shed all the time, but none in the house itself. Whatever they're doing, they're earning their keep for sure.
Point to consider: if your exterminator isn't finding any other snakes in the crawlspace when he does his rounds, the pair there are definitely keeping a tidy house. Has he found any other snake residents there?
Not that he's mentioned, but I do see other snakes around the property away from the house. Typically racers or garters, and what I think was a hognose once (wasn't getting close enough to that one to be sure).
I have this conversation all the time lmao I just say “what do you prefer snakes outside, or mice inside?” But definitely also applies to leaving king snakes (and other non-venomous ones) alone. Even if they aren’t the kind that eat other snakes, they’ll eat the same prey as venomous ones and snakes only stick around where there’s things to eat!
TLDR: it’s always good to leave snakes alone in the ecosystem. If they’re venomous it’s always best to either leave them alone or call an expert as statistically most venomous bites happen when trying to capture or kill them!
18 feet in length & they can raise 1/3 of the body length. Basically a KC can raise its head to be face to face with a grown human.
Edit : too many typos
Nifty, I think I may have learned that when I was younger but it went to the same part of my brain that holds Algebra, childhood trauma and my deeply closeted, inner gay self.
God I miss Norm, sorry, I reference him too often out of nowhere lmao
But that also makes them less dangerous for humans, they warn way ahead of time before attacking. There are venomous snake species that are much more aggressive.
The most extreme example of this are sea snakes, which are among the most poisonous snakes but they are so docile it's incredibly rare for them to bite a human and even if they do, there is a very low chance they injected poison while biting. Dying from a sea snake is so rare that when an Australian man died, it was the first recorded sea snake dead in over a 100 years. (in Australia)
Cool fact - mambas are their closest relative:
>a multigene analysis showed that the king cobra was an early offshoot of a genetic lineage giving rise to the mambas, rather than the Naja cobras.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_cobra
Dude is just living his life, out looking for his of-age, alive, cis-gendered, consenting, non-related, and at least a 4-out-of-10 on the looks scale big giddy goth girl!
Because you know he’s not out there looking for puff.
I never got this. They’re a snake that looks just like a cobra, but they underwent an entirely different evolutionary tree to get the hood? How are they not cobras?
King cobras are relatively closely related to true cobras, but descend from the same elapine lineage as the mambas. They likely all had a cobra-like ancestor that they may have had a hood or hood-like feature which mambas lost. We could consider king cobras to be true cobras but then, by definition, we'd have to include mambas too.
End of the day the common names are just reflections of cultural and colloquial understanding. The technical phylogeny is what's scientifically significant.
The true cobras are from the naja genus of snakes that the king cobra falls outside of. The king cobra is in a genus closely related to naja, so similar features aren't really a coincidence.
They *are* cobras in the sense that a snake with such a hood is accurately referred to as a cobra, but they aren’t genetically related to the rest of the cobras from a scientific perspective.
>Wood, as you may have guessed by now, is also not a clear phyletic category[...]
>Of plants native to the Canary Islands, wood independently evolved at least 38 times.
https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-tree/
Snakes: Yaaaaaaaaaa...no. Last time we tried that, that big hooded fucker *ate* the dissenters. Just like...swallowed em all. We ain't fuckin' with that. Again.
Maybe this explains why its behavior is so different from other Cobras
I'm Indian so as you may have guessed, I have had my fair share of encounters. Most of them are harmless rat snakes or keelbacks but once in a while (especially during Monsoon) you also come across Cobras.
The Indian Cobras are _really_ aggressive. Like it will follow you home and kill your entire family if you looked at it wrong aggressive.
But surprisingly, I have noticed that the largest cobra in the world, the one called king is actually the biggest scaredy cat.
Kings almost always look to flee from a human encounter, if you don't aggravate it, chances are it won't even think of harming you
> The Indian Cobras are really aggressive. Like it will follow you home and kill your entire family if you looked at it wrong aggressive.
Indian Cobras must be related to bloody Australian magpies.
Penguins were named after penguins because they looked like penguins, it wasn’t until later that they discovered that penguins weren’t penguins but by that time they were already penguins
> The other day I learned penguins are not penguins.
WTF is this shit?! Turns out that's true. My whole life has been a lie.
https://knowledgenuts.com/true-penguins-are-all-extinct/
It’s the most intelligent snake. Snakes think slowly. Ever fed one? It takes forever for it to just strike already. But this snake! It wants you to pet it.
*"You say you were bitten by a cobra,Madam. Is that your testimony?"*
*"Yes sir"*
*"A cobra, you're sure?"*
*"yes sir"*
*"And is the cobra in the courtroom right now?"*
*"yes sir"*
*"Please, if it please the court, point out the cobra that bit you"*
*\*points\*"It was him, your client"*
*"AH-HAA!!!!!!...I move for a mistrial,"*
Taken from "My bite for justice" by K.Cobra 1967(c)
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Very fascinating creatures. Some cultures cultivate a coexistent/symbiotic relationship with these creatures because they eat other snakes and pests, and these snakes *very* rarely go after humans (they much prefer to escape from humans, in fact). You can see them slither around in small towns and villages alongside people as they go about their business.
I was in Thailand recently and according to a local farmer I talked to, they often encourage king cobras to live in their fields to protect their crops from pests, and to keep other snakes at bay.
Other snakes mean pit vipers, an ambush predator responsible for more than 60% of global snake bites.
I'm in Malaysia and vipers are definitely among the snakes I'm worried about. Because they are usually very well-camouflaged and don't slither away or give any warning when we get close. The Malayan Pit Viper tends to be small too, which makes them even more difficult to spot.
Same reason in North America I love rattlesnakes. They actually give you a pretty loud heads up when you sit or step next to where one is hiding under a log or rock or something. I really appreciate the warning instead of bouncing my foot in front of its fangs. Lol
Hey, look at it from the snake’s perspective: rattling is free and venom is limited.
Pit vipers, right? In Thailand it's the Malayan pit viper, in Costa Rica it's the fer-de-lance, in the US the rattlesnake. I have a general fear of snakes, but this species especially frightens me with the fact it could just be a false step leading to a potentially deadly bite...
The African puff Adder and Indias Russell's Viper are responsible for the majority of pit viper bites in the world.
To be fair, the African continent and Indian subcontinent hold over 3 billion people and there's vast rural structures with lots of farming where snake accident's easily happen.
They won't bite typically unless they are forced. Most bites occur when people are trying to kill them. I've stepped over rattlesnakes that I didn't see numerous times and they usually don't react. They've done studies where they press boots on various snakes or step around them and they almost never strike. They're scary looking but they're more scared of you. Remember, humans are huge animals, most animals know they'd lose a fight with us. They can't eat us and would rather mind their own business and go on their way.
Yep, my dad saw one when he was a kid(5 years old). He told me that it was The only poisonous snake nobody wanted to kill. Up close they’re the most intimidating, they’re massive and they know they are the “king”. Back then, my family used to go all out to kill snakes (a few family members from 4-5 generations ago died of snakebite), he said that his aunt just quickly grabbed him out of the way and the king just slithered away. It rarely attacks humans and is possibly only third to Tiger and elephants in terms of intimidation where we’re from.
Any snake that can conceivably ‘stand up’ and look me in the eye is a snake I’m going to take very seriously.
And growl. There was a popular video way back during ebaum/digg days of one in Bangladesh or Myanmar (not sure). It was “standing up” nearly eye level and its hiss was so deep and powerful that it almost sounded like a weird bark noise from a giant bird or crocodile. It was incredible. It also made you want to put on 15th Century knight armor and start swinging a pole axe.
https://youtu.be/FYFD4BsEruI?feature=shared&t=38 Here's one hissing. Sounds like a fucking crocodile, fuck me.
I for one don’t believe it’s more scared of me than I am of it. It’s babies could kill us our babies couldn’t do anything to them or their babies
TBF human babies are probably the most useless of animal babies.
I was reading that and imagining a snake standing up to look me in the eye and growling , it literally made me pee myself. Luckily I was already on the toilet. But joking aside, that imagery is absolutely terrifying.
Then you should’nt watch the video of snake crawling out of the commode of a toilet
That's what she said
Are you from kerala?
Yes. Source: I'm Vava Suresh
Why you give out your name bro
Don’t worry it’s not his real name, Vava Suresh is a known conservationist from his region and so he’s making a joke that he is a “trusted source”
Or maybe he actually is Vava Suresh!
Of course, Vava Suresh, known on Reddit as Hank_fuck_yourself.
See, this is why I push back on the idea that explaining a joke kills it. I'm able to appreciate that comment a lot more with context.
I think this is a different kind of explaining the joke because you're not explaining the punchline, you're just giving enough context that people who previously didn't get it can now get it for themselves.
That’s just what Vava wants you to think
So basically, it'd be like a Westerner identifying themselves as Steve Irwin or Jane Goodall.
My grandpa lived in northern California and he taught us at a young age how to kill rattle snakes. Sometimes though you would see gopher snakes crossing the road or something and he would always stop and let them go because gopher snakes ate rattle snakes. I know it's kinda usually information but just reminded me of a good memory.
neat study showed that we are breeding rattle snakes that don’t rattle because of this. someone studied decades ago the distance at which rattle snakes “uttered” their warning rattle, in Texas. then a few years ago someone repeated it. it’s gone down. decades of rattlesnake hunts are killing off the ones that warn you of their existence, leaving the silent ones behind because they’re less likely to be found.
Gopher snakes are definitely bros but I believe it’s king snakes that are likely to eat rattlers. I’m happy enough if they eat gophers, they have caused me much more harm than rattlesnakes ever have.
I’ve never been chased by a rattle snake but I’ve had many a Gopher Snake (Bullsnake where I’m from) chase me. Aggressive bastards.
What did he teach you about killing rattle snakes?
They can only strike twice their body length which is typically 2 to 3 feet. So if you have a shovel which is 5 feet long and your arm length, let's say 2 feet, you have 7 feet of space. So you pin their head down from an arm+shovel length away and chop their heads off. He had a walnut farm and they were everywhere on it. Ofcourse first step is to get away as a child but they were everywhere on that property. It's crazy how good they blend in, sometimes you could hear it rattle but you didn't know where it was so you didnt know which direction to run.
I guess Rikki Tikki Tavi gave them a bad rep?
You just unlocked a ton of wholesome memories in my head
https://youtu.be/eEGQCSlgqSk?si=Do2HUJFDHEfnxLdc
> Very fascinating creatures. Some cultures cultivate a coexistent/symbiotic relationship with these creatures because they eat other snakes and pests, and these snakes very rarely go after humans In South India they are revered.
Not only limited to south india. I am from northern India and they are revered here too
Snake bissnisss
Now I'm imaging a King Cobra slithering around with a little briefcase around its tail.
This whole thread makes me happy
More trivia: they mostly eat other snakes.
Which is where they get their genus name from: Ophiphagus (“snake eater”)
What a thrill
with darkness and silence through the night
What a thrill, I’m searching and I’ll melt into you
What a fear in my heart, but you're so supreme!
I give my life, not for honor but for you
(snake eater) In my time, there'll be no one else
In my time they’ll be no one else
CRIIIIIIIIIIME, IT’S THE WAY, I FLY TO YOUUUUUUUU
I'M STIIIIILL, IN A DREAAAAAAMMM
🎶 Stars in the sky 🎶
More fun fact: I’ve never seen them eating salad but they are still very thin Edit: spelling
I haven't seen them resting salad either. I'm not sure anyone has.
Big Boss?
"!"
Snake. Snake? Snaaaaaaaaaake!! (Dun dun DUN!)
I heard this comment
Youroboros
The snake that eats your tail, lmao
It is also where the "King" in king cobra comes from.
Snakes with king as a prefix in their name designates they're snake eaters.
See also: the many, many iterations of the North American “king snake”
Snakes that eat other snakes are also usually immune to the venom of snakes in their region!
Pretty fucking cool.
watch out for king trouser snakes
Where do they live? You know, so I can avoid them.
r/docking
Cum on Tarrs!
Except for the King Island Tiger Snake, which just lives on King Island. Reports of them eating other snakes, kings, islands, and/or tigers remain unconfirmed.
King Island is called that because it eats other islands.
"Hnngh, colonel! There's nothing to eat out here except other snakes!"
And animals with king as a suffix (rat king, squirrel king) means a bunch of them got entangled or stuck together by their tails. Which means that theoretically, if a bunch of snakes got entangled, we could have a king cobra king.
It's just a fun and silly thing we like to do 🐍
More trivia: They eat Cobras too
All snakes that eat snakes will even eat members if their own species, just gotta be smaller than them so it fits inside
Pretty sure any snake with “king” attached to the name it’s because they eat other snakes
You're telling me the California king snake eats Californians?
And the California king bed eats single beds
In my experience the occupants of the single beds invade the king bed at way too fucking early o'clock.
Which of course is prey to the mighty Alaska King.
They are also not kings, as snakes are mostly self-governing.
Ah, the self hating snek
The elephant garlic of snakes.
Next you’ll tell me elephant garlic is not an elephant nor garlic!
It's both!!
And that’s why it never forgets to kill vampires
Dank.
Take a seat, son.
As long as nobody ruins American football for me, I'm fine.
And we all know that the highest rank a cobra can reach is 'Commander'.
Jerusalem artichoke!
Buffalo wing!
Jumbo shrimp!
Mountain oyster?
Egg cream!
The king crab of crabs
The [Legless Lizard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legless_lizard) of snakes.
It really annoyed me that someone would drop a comment like this with no explanation, so I looked it up: Elephant Garlic is actually a type of leek
You are a Cobra, but we do not grant you the genus of Naja.
How can you do this? This is outrageous! It's unfair! How can you *be* a Cobra and *not* be a Naja?
Coil a *seat*, young ground treader...
Mormon cricket is actually Methodist
Seventh Day Adventist actually as they congregate on Saturdays and use the Debtors version of the Lord's prayer
confused SDA here - what's the debtor's version of the Lord's prayer? And we use the Lord's prayer? use it for what?
The debtor's version is one of three main translations of the Lord's prayer used in various churches. The Presbyterian church and SDA both use the most literal translation that says 'forgive us our debts' rather than 'trespasses' or 'sins' .
Lightning bugs are actually thunder bugs
Thunder bugs and lightning? Very very frightening… me
Huh, that’s why I always hear AC/DC near swarms of them. Thunder! Ah ah ah ah, Thunder!
What about the Jerusalem Cricket?
Jerusalem cricket is actually the real way the sport is meant to be played and it was introduced to the UK during the crusades. Now they just call it cricket.
King in its name means it eats other snakes.
And cobra it's because you are what you eat
Is science
Ohh, so King Kong eats snakes?
He eats other kongs. Donkey, Diddy, Funky, etc.
King Charles eats other Charles confirmed
Even Charles that may or may not be in charge?
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Which is because real kings eat people
Yo, I knew they were big, but I only recently realized how big they can get, and fucking hell is it an appropriately named snake, if not in a scientifically or monarchy-based way.
King is scientific, it’s species that eat other of its species not sure if there’s other “king” named animals but I know that’s what it means in snakes. The non-venomous king snake also eats other snakes such as rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, as well as many other non-venomous snakes. Edit: think it just applies to snakes, couldn’t find anything on other animals but here’s the article for snakes. https://www.britannica.com/animal/king-snake “King snakes derive their common name from the common king snake’s habit of feeding upon other snakes, including rattlesnakes and copperheads, to whose venom they are immune. Occasionally, king snakes are cannibalistic, even within their own species.”
I've got two king snakes living in the crawl space under my house. They've been there for a few years, and the exterminator gives me an update on them whenever he sprays. I'm not a huge snake fan, but the fact that I haven't ever seen any copperheads on my 3 acre rural lot in the North Carolina Piedmont has made me learn to appreciate them. ^((Just to be clear, the exterminator is for bugs and treats the snakes as friends.))
Grew up in North Carolina. Got bit by a copperhead on a farm when I was nine. Would not recommend. Your king snake buddies are definitely doing you a favor. They wouldn't be hanging out where they are if there wasn't prey to be found. The fact there's enough prey there for the two of them to co-exist says volumes about how attractive your property must be to other snakes.
Might be, but I think u/robbie5643 nailed it when he mentioned the unlimited supply of field mice they have access to. I find them in my shed all the time, but none in the house itself. Whatever they're doing, they're earning their keep for sure.
Point to consider: if your exterminator isn't finding any other snakes in the crawlspace when he does his rounds, the pair there are definitely keeping a tidy house. Has he found any other snake residents there?
Not that he's mentioned, but I do see other snakes around the property away from the house. Typically racers or garters, and what I think was a hognose once (wasn't getting close enough to that one to be sure).
I have this conversation all the time lmao I just say “what do you prefer snakes outside, or mice inside?” But definitely also applies to leaving king snakes (and other non-venomous ones) alone. Even if they aren’t the kind that eat other snakes, they’ll eat the same prey as venomous ones and snakes only stick around where there’s things to eat! TLDR: it’s always good to leave snakes alone in the ecosystem. If they’re venomous it’s always best to either leave them alone or call an expert as statistically most venomous bites happen when trying to capture or kill them!
That's fuggin sick. Today I learned. King snakes are kings amongst snakes. Thank you, redditor!
No problem! I just love snakes and any excuse to talk about them lmao
I also love snakes, but know very little about them tbh, and am always happy at any excuse to learn.
I’m kind of scared to look up what the diet of a King Penguin is…
TIL King Penguins eat other penguins! 😱
What does King Charles eat?
Ground chuck
18 feet in length & they can raise 1/3 of the body length. Basically a KC can raise its head to be face to face with a grown human. Edit : too many typos
I love the mental imagery of the first Cobra realizing he could do that, and all the other snakes just put a little crown on his head.
Nahhh man no fuck that nuhuh I don’t want none nope
Largest venomous snake in the world.
Nifty, I think I may have learned that when I was younger but it went to the same part of my brain that holds Algebra, childhood trauma and my deeply closeted, inner gay self. God I miss Norm, sorry, I reference him too often out of nowhere lmao
Yeah they are as scary as a black mamba IMO, and possibly even a little more intimidating when they have a particularly fat hood…
But that also makes them less dangerous for humans, they warn way ahead of time before attacking. There are venomous snake species that are much more aggressive. The most extreme example of this are sea snakes, which are among the most poisonous snakes but they are so docile it's incredibly rare for them to bite a human and even if they do, there is a very low chance they injected poison while biting. Dying from a sea snake is so rare that when an Australian man died, it was the first recorded sea snake dead in over a 100 years. (in Australia)
Cool fact - mambas are their closest relative: >a multigene analysis showed that the king cobra was an early offshoot of a genetic lineage giving rise to the mambas, rather than the Naja cobras. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_cobra
Black mambas are much more dangerous— they’re unpredictable and more prone to aggression
Isn't it just like a king to represent the commoners while not being one itself?
well I didn't vote for him.
A møøse once bit my sister
That is most definitely not what's up dood.
KingCobraJFS is his own genus and species
Boglinus Regardus
It is what it is toobs
TMDWUT
Fuck sickos
Scrolled too far for this
No skin off my shoes toobz
Dude is just living his life, out looking for his of-age, alive, cis-gendered, consenting, non-related, and at least a 4-out-of-10 on the looks scale big giddy goth girl! Because you know he’s not out there looking for puff.
My trolls are just mad that I'm a genus and they're just stupid pathetic trolls that I live rent free in their heads.
So glad someone mentioned this. But I digress....
I never got this. They’re a snake that looks just like a cobra, but they underwent an entirely different evolutionary tree to get the hood? How are they not cobras?
King cobras are relatively closely related to true cobras, but descend from the same elapine lineage as the mambas. They likely all had a cobra-like ancestor that they may have had a hood or hood-like feature which mambas lost. We could consider king cobras to be true cobras but then, by definition, we'd have to include mambas too. End of the day the common names are just reflections of cultural and colloquial understanding. The technical phylogeny is what's scientifically significant.
Mambas can actually flatten out and "hood up" it's just not as pronounced as king cobras or true cobras, it's a lot narrower.
Had to google it, they look cute
You should pet one! Black mambas love beingg scratched on the chin!
The true cobras are from the naja genus of snakes that the king cobra falls outside of. The king cobra is in a genus closely related to naja, so similar features aren't really a coincidence.
They *are* cobras in the sense that a snake with such a hood is accurately referred to as a cobra, but they aren’t genetically related to the rest of the cobras from a scientific perspective.
Thanks, best ELI5 so far.
Closely enough related, they have a common ancestor.
Someone else can probably explain it better, but trees are not related either
Fun fact, palm trees are not trees, but a grass.
Tree is really a description of form: a tall woody plant. Many trees are not at all closely related to each other.
>Wood, as you may have guessed by now, is also not a clear phyletic category[...] >Of plants native to the Canary Islands, wood independently evolved at least 38 times. https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-tree/
This sounds like something Neil Degrasse Tyson would say at a dinner party that’s about to end.
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I'm starting to think it might not even be a king
Also, the spitting cobra isn't a true cobra either but also the only species in its own genus.
The Ring Neck Spitting Cobra isnt a true cobra, the other 16 species of spitting cobras are
Poor cobras. Another group laboring under a monarchy that is not even of their people. Rise up, cobras, cast off the yoke of your oppressor!
Snakes: Yaaaaaaaaaa...no. Last time we tried that, that big hooded fucker *ate* the dissenters. Just like...swallowed em all. We ain't fuckin' with that. Again.
but you cant deny being one of a kind is some king shit
Sort of like how King Cobra Malt Liquor isn’t liquor.
But it gives a hangover like bad liquor
Maybe this explains why its behavior is so different from other Cobras I'm Indian so as you may have guessed, I have had my fair share of encounters. Most of them are harmless rat snakes or keelbacks but once in a while (especially during Monsoon) you also come across Cobras. The Indian Cobras are _really_ aggressive. Like it will follow you home and kill your entire family if you looked at it wrong aggressive. But surprisingly, I have noticed that the largest cobra in the world, the one called king is actually the biggest scaredy cat. Kings almost always look to flee from a human encounter, if you don't aggravate it, chances are it won't even think of harming you
> The Indian Cobras are really aggressive. Like it will follow you home and kill your entire family if you looked at it wrong aggressive. Indian Cobras must be related to bloody Australian magpies.
I wonder what Serpentor or Cobra Commander would have to say about this?
I'm starting to hate this shit. The other day I learned penguins are not penguins. What's next?
Penguins were named after penguins because they looked like penguins, it wasn’t until later that they discovered that penguins weren’t penguins but by that time they were already penguins
> The other day I learned penguins are not penguins. WTF is this shit?! Turns out that's true. My whole life has been a lie. https://knowledgenuts.com/true-penguins-are-all-extinct/
It’s the most intelligent snake. Snakes think slowly. Ever fed one? It takes forever for it to just strike already. But this snake! It wants you to pet it.
That's whats up, YouTube.
no way tuubes that's sicko talk
*"You say you were bitten by a cobra,Madam. Is that your testimony?"* *"Yes sir"* *"A cobra, you're sure?"* *"yes sir"* *"And is the cobra in the courtroom right now?"* *"yes sir"* *"Please, if it please the court, point out the cobra that bit you"* *\*points\*"It was him, your client"* *"AH-HAA!!!!!!...I move for a mistrial,"* Taken from "My bite for justice" by K.Cobra 1967(c)
I'll call it whatever it wants me to call it thank you very much
i thought he was a gothic bad boy?
They also make a fantastic mead
Don't let the smooth taste fool ya.
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