The difference between a cobra and a king cobra

Cobra also known as rice spoon Qian, bat snake, swollen neck snake, etc., for the cobra genus animals, for a genus of cobra family, most members are collectively referred to as cobra, although the name of the king cobra contains "cobra", but due to insufficient evolutionary affinity and not classified as cobra, let's take a look at the difference between cobra and king cobra!

Family and Genus Differences between Cobra and King Cobra

1. Cobra: Cobra is a general term for venomous snakes in animal kingdom, chordate phylum, vertebrate phylum, creeper class, bipoda, squamata, snake suborder, cobra family and cobra genus.

2. King cobra: King cobra is a large poisonous snake belonging to animal kingdom, chordate phylum, vertebrate phylum, reptile class, bipoda, squamata, snake suborder, cobra family, cobra subfamily and king cobra.

Morphological differences between cobras and king cobras

1, cobra: cobra body length can reach 1.2~2.5 meters, maxilla is short, the front end has groove teeth, groove teeth often have 1 to several fine teeth, the department of anterior groove teeth snake, venom contains neurotoxicity. Do not love activities, the head was oval, from the appearance of non-poisonous snake is not easy to distinguish. The head has symmetrical large scales on the back, without buccal scales. Pupils round, cylindrical tail, the entire spine has a vertebral process.

King Cobra: King Cobra is a large snake with a maximum length of 5580 mm. The back of the body is black-brown, the nape of the neck has a yellow-white stripe with a "$>" shape, without speckled glasses, and the back of the trunk and tail has narrow white stripes with black edges. The lower jaw is khaki, the ventral surface of the body is taupe, and has black linear stripes. It weighs about 6 kilograms and has a life expectancy of about 20 years.

The difference between cobra and king cobra habits

1. Cobra: Cobra often likes to live in bushes or bamboo forests in plains, hills and mountains. It is also common in hillside graves, at the foot of mountains, by streams and fish ponds, in fields and near houses. It has a wide range of feeding habits. It eats snakes, fish, frogs, birds, eggs, butterflies, etc. It belongs to diurnal snakes and mainly goes out for food during the day.

2. King Cobra: King Cobra likes to live alone. It comes out to prey during the day and hides in rock crevices or tree holes at night. The food is usually other snakes with anti-venom in their bodies. When other poisonous snakes bite the king cobra, they will usually be safe, including snakes of suitable size and species, non-poisonous snakes, such as cobras, bungarus cobra, bungarus cobra, rat snake, etc., and even other similar snakes will eat when the food is insufficient.

The difference between cobra and king cobra toxicity

1. Cobra: Early symptoms of cobra bite include eyelid drooping, double vision, dysphagia, dizziness, facial paralysis, vomiting and then respiratory muscle paralysis. Treatment is usually with antivenom and may require artificial ventilation until the venom degrades and the patient breathes spontaneously. If the treatment failed, more patients died 6~12 hours after the bite, and the cause of death was respiratory paralysis and suffocation.

2. King Cobra: King Cobra is agile, its head can rotate flexibly, and it often does not easily scatter its mouth after biting something. The dry poison in the venom is about 100 mg, and the average lethal dose is 12 mg. The bitten person will cause swelling, nausea, abdominal pain, respiratory paralysis, speech disorder, coma and other symptoms within a few minutes. If there is no timely drug treatment within half an hour after being bitten, the person will die.