Is the venom of Zhoushan cobra strong?

Zhoushan cobra is commonly known as rice shovel in Guangdong, Guangxi and Hong Kong, while it is called rice spoon, rice spoon and neck snake in Taiwan. It belongs to the cobra family and is distributed in the middle and low elevations of southern China, Taiwan and Indo-China Peninsula. it is a large front trench venomous snake with black or dark brown body color and white fine horizontal lines on the back or not. the total length of adult snake is 1.5 meters-2 meters.

The living habits of Zhoushan Cobra

Zhoushan cobras eat a wide range of food, mainly frogs and snakes, birds and rats, and also eat lizards, Loach, eels and other small fish. It has been observed in Taiwan that the snake mainly feeds on birds and rats, and it also feeds on water snakes and Loach by the water. Sting occurs around May every year, and hibernates in November.

Zhoushan cobra egg-laying animals usually mate from May to June and produce from July to August. They lay 7 to 19 eggs at a time, with a length of 42 to 54 mm and a short diameter of 26 to 31 mm. The incubation period is 1.5 to 2 months. The total length of newly hatched snakes is about 0.2 meters.

Is Zhoushan cobra toxic?

Zhoushan cobra is very toxic. Zhoushan belongs to the ditch tooth venomous snake, which has a large amount of detoxification, strong toxicity, wide injury and serious harm, and secretes a mixed poison of nerve and blood, which will be life-threatening if not treated in time after being bitten.

The distribution range of Zhoushan cobra

Chinese cobra is distributed in Anhui, Chongqing, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Lao people's Democratic Republic and Vietnam.