king cobra

a king cobra habitats is near streams indense or open forest bamboo thinkets adjacent agricultural areas and dense mongroose swamps sometimes poachers set traps for the king cobra and kill them for their skin or medicene or even repitails are sold illegally as exotic pets however humans are not the only predetars of the king cobra as mongooses honey badgers and secretary birds also prey on king cobra normally restricts its diet to cold blooded animale particaurly other snakes some speacies devalop a rigid diet of a single species of snakes and refuse any other type the sientifc name for the king cobra is ophiophagus the averge age for a king cobra is 20 years