Hand King Cobra
Hand King Cobra
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US $39.95
Would you like to meet Cobra
Well, right? Most adults can not answered. But not a child. The fear of snakes, including Cobra is not an instinctive trait in young children or even animals. Aversion to snakes can be caused by information that is unreliable stories, exaggerated myths and misconceptions.
Of course, when we invite you to meet a cobra, we refer to a safe distance! Cobras are highly venomous, and I would not go to one and keep our hand to pet him. Nor does the charge is likely to wait to greet us upon hearing our approach, it would be a hasty retreat to a safe place to hide. So we'll be happy to meet the charges only to learn some fascinating facts about this interesting creature.
Cobras are reptiles the suborder Serpentes and Elapidae family, a name given to venomous snakes with grooved fangs. There are about 12 species of snakes spread across Australia's tropical Asia and Africa to Arabia and temperate zones. By far the most feared is the king cobra cobras or hamadryad. With a length of 9 to 18 feet [3 to 5 m], this is the largest venomous snake in the world. Preferring the dense undergrowth of the jungle or swamp, where rainfall is abundant, can be found in southern China, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and parts of India. A jet-black tail, bands of color on a greenish-yellow body, which becomes dark olive with age, and groups of spots small in his campaign to make it look pretty.
Other species of cobra average of three to six feet [1 to 2 m] long. Indigenous to India and distributed widely there, spectacled cobra with its hood unique markings, which resemble a pair of glasses. You can be black, brown or yellowish white with a band wide neck, dark and white stripes and yellow mottling of the length of its body. Monocle cobra, found in Sri Lanka, as well as in eastern and northeastern India, is lighter with a smaller, rounder hood having a single white circle, which gives it its name. In northwestern India and Pakistan, is a color charge jet black. Africa, among others, the Ringhals or Spitting Cobra, and the Egyptian cobra. The latter, a dark and narrow-hooded snake, is possibly the asp to the death of Queen Cleopatra is attributed.
Snakes mate only with their own species, are attracted by a unique musky odor. The cobra shows more interest from the family of other snakes, men and women often stay together. The female king cobra is one of the only snakes known to make a nest. Is scraped leaves in a mound about a foot [30 cm] tall and deposits 20 to 50 eggs in it. It then coils its body around the mound and stays there without food for nearly two months of incubation, the males often stay too close. Other cobras, without preparing a nest, being close to their eggs to protect them.
Baby Snakes use an egg tooth, which then falls, to cut the shell and release themselves. On the new ones are totally independent with venom glands and fangs fully formed. They film their tongues frequently, like the environment, and transfer of chemical information about what called Jacobson's organ in the roof of the mouth. This is related to the sense of smell, taste and odor combination helps the snake to follow their prey, find a mate or escape predators.
The young serpent grows rapidly and soon sheds its outer skin, which has become too tight. This unusual phenomenon is repeated regularly, as the charge continues to grow throughout his life, which can be over 20 years. For one or two weeks before the move, the snake becomes lethargic, her skin is weakened, and their eyes turn milky blue. Then suddenly, clear eyes, and by rubbing the head stone, the snake is divided the old skin in your mouth. Now is literally crawls out of its skin as it pulls away from the inside out, from the transparent cover over the eyes to tail. Now a public holiday shiny and new looking snake is ready to go about their normal activities.
The air temperature greatly affects the cobras. As the weather cools decelerate and even become dormant, only stirring when the temperature rises. Too much heat can cause death. Except for the king cobra, which feeds snakes, their diet is rats, mice, frogs, lizards, birds and other small animals. After the prey is captured, an injection of venom that immobilizes. Ingested whole, as the charge is not equipped to chew food. The skin's elasticity and flexibility of the mandible allows the Cobra to swallow an animal that is two or three times greater than his own head. While the mouth is completely blocked by the victim, the snake breathes drawing the entrance of the trachea forward beyond of obstruction, like a swimmer using a tube. Now rows of backward-curved teeth move along the barrier in the body of the snake. He retired to a quiet place to digest food slowly, you may not eat again for several days. The cobra can live for months without eating, from the fat stored in your body.
Snakes are cautious. (See Matthew 10:16.) The defense is claiming the right to escape, perhaps crawling under a rock or at home mousetrap, or in the quiet, so to avoid detection. Front will be back and spread his hood, hissing to frighten the enemy. Biting is a last resort.
Snakebite
Snake bite in rural Africa and Asia often goes unreported, but everyone seems that about one million people are bitten by snakes each year poisonous. India holds the record for about 10,000 deaths a year maybe most of them from the spectacled cobra. About 10 percent of cobra bites prove fatal.
The cobra is slower than many snakes, agile mongoose, one of their main enemies, you can maneuver. Skip to the snake, then dodging the attack strike on several occasions, leaving the cobra mongoose nervous and hesitant. Attacking behind the chapel, broke his neck. Many snakes strike from a position spiral, so it is difficult to reach, but the cobra raises its body and strikes downward. The distance can be judged, and a person can get out of range of motion relatively slow.
Some snakes, like the Ringhals, black-necked cobra in South Africa and cobras in northeastern India, defend spitting. The breeding and pointing their fangs into the victim, the snake, with the exhausted air can shoot two fine spray poison over six feet [2 m]. In this skin does not hurt but if it gets into the eyes can cause temporary blindness and, if not washed off quickly, permanent blindness. Interestingly, the snake seems to be able to point to the eyes.
Suppose that a cobra's bite, what should you do? The poison is extracted from the venom sacs in the snake of the cheeks by two short, hollow fangs, fixed in front of the snake of the jaws. These fangs puncture the skin and inject the poison of the form of a hypodermic syringe would. The only sure remedy for snakebite antidote is prepared from the venom of four poisonous snakes. In the 20 th century, India was the first country to widely used anti-venom. powder antivenin is effective for five years without refrigeration reconstituted injected.
Symptoms of cobra bite are pain and swelling at the site, blurred vision, unsteadiness, paralysis of the larynx, breathing and deceleration. Death occurs within a couple of hours if a large dose of poison has been injected and no treatment is given.
The snake charmer
Snake charming is a very old form of entertainment. Practice especially in the East, some Western circuses have incorporated this in their repertoire. Because of its unusual hood and nervous disposition, the spectacled cobra is the most popular snake snakes used, but other impressive-looking, like the real snake and the red sand boa, are also used. In the charming, a skilled showman, playing his pipes, the cobra rises from its basket and extends hood in normal defensive position. Movements for the snake charmer cause a reaction in the snake, because it keeps an eye on him, always ready to attack. Most cobras used by snake charmers have been defanged, but some men the risk of working with venomous snakes.
In ancient India, the itinerant snake charmer was also a reporter of the religious ideas and myths, which gave him popular appeal. Today it is more profitable to have outstanding performance of the hotels frequented by tourists happy camera. Some snake charmers and visit homes to inform the family that his great garden is a likely place for snakes. For an agreed sum is offered for his capture. Disappears in the bushes, and after some time, during which the sound of his pipes can be heard, returns with a bag full of snakes. Of course, the homeowner would have been prudent to monitor it or at least to see if he had a bag of snakes with him!
Educate Snake Park
Snake parks promote interest in reptiles. Sponsoring research, prevention education snakebites and cure, and work to protect human snakes greed and ignorance. Cobras have been killed for their beautiful skin, which become on belts, bags, shoes and other luxury items. In 1001 years, more than million snakes were killed in India for the leather industry. Snakes are skin and then killed immediately. vegetable dyes are used in India to give the skin color, and glass is sometimes polished and sprayed with lacquer to make it bright and repellent water.
The value of the charges can not be overestimated. You save tons of grain by killing rats and other vermin. Their venom provides antivenoms, analgesics and other drugs. The Tata Memorial Cancer Institute in Bombay is studying the effect of cobra venom on cancer cells.
Have you enjoyed meeting the cobra? Beautiful, useful, sensible and well-equipped to defend themselves. Getting to know you better can help us to appreciate a much-maligned member of the animal kingdom.
Cobra worship and superstition
COBRA worship has existed since ancient times. The reason for the charges has been found in the seals of Mohenjo-Daro, one of the civilizations old to be unearthed by archaeologists. From the third millennium BC C. until today, millions of people in India have seen cobras with superstitious reverence. Interestingly, many of the stories comes from being recognized as distorted myths about real historical events.
Creating a "history" speaks of a time when there was no light in the universe. From dark cosmic waters the brilliant god Vishnu was created first, then heaven, earth and underworld. From the material surplus, a huge cobra Shesha call (ie the remainder) was created. Myth Shesha with credits from 5 to 1,000 head, and the images show Vishnu reclining on the spiral Shesha, sheltered from the open hoods of Shesha's many heads. Earthquakes are attributed to Shesha yawn, and fire from his mouth or his poison destroys the world at the end of time.
Hindu mythology is a cobra-race called the Nagas, who inhabit the underworld, Nagalok or Patala. The plaintiff-monkey god Hanuman in the "It was perfect," all men are holy, not a single religion, and there were no demons or Nagas. Snakes became the guardian of the wealth of land and possess great knowledge and magical powers. Shesha, sometimes also called Vasuki, was used by the gods to beat a sea of milk to produce amrita, the nectar that would give him immortality. The underworld, ruled by the Nagas, is portrayed as a more convenient location, the warriors who die in battle are promised unimaginable pleasures there.
However, not all mythical cobras are considered benign. A "story" relates an encounter between Krishna, an incarnation of Vishnu, and Kaliya, a great evil demon cobra. The images show the victory of Krishna with his foot on the head of the great serpent.
Manasa, or Durgamma, Queen of the Nagas, is adored by women to protect their children from snakebite. In the festival Nagapanchami, devotees pour milk snakes and blood, even in images of cobras and snakes through the holes. Stone or silver images of cobras are venerated and offered in the temples of women hoping to conceive a son.
The Cobra Film
Cobra mythology is a very popular theme in films made in India over 40 having been produced since 1928. In general, the cobra is depicted as a guardian of goodness, an aide of his devotees, and a destroyer of the wicked. Popular is the myth of the cobras Icchadari, said who have the power to take human form. Are said to have a faithful companion. If the partner is killed, the cobra is able to see the image of the murderer in the snake's eyes, and embarks on a path of revenge. This becomes a basis for many animated films. Dominating the story are the snake dances, with music as the charming snakes, the dancers imitate the movement of the snake, even slithering on the ground.
A documentary film, Shakti, was filmed at a festival Rajasthan, India, where every August hundreds of thousands of worshipers are snakes in the desert. Under a scorching sun and temperatures up to over 122 degrees Fahrenheit [50 ยบ C], who flagellate themselves with iron rods and crawl on their stomachs more than one km [2] mile in the hot sand to the temple of a snake-god Gogh. A historical king in the tenth century, Gogh said that he saved his people from the Muslim invaders, leading the enemy in an area infested with snakes, which was decimated snakebites army.
Saved by Cobra
Two families in Sastur people of India have reasons to be grateful to a cobra. They woke up at 3:50 am on September 30, 1993, by the sharp hiss of a cobra, and you slipped away from home. Pursued in the fields to kill it. At 4:00 am, the terrible earthquake in central India flattened her village, killing almost everyone. The two families survive the early warning system Cobra!
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