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Most parts of the world are inhabited venomous snakes. This will protect against night-prowling kraits (Asia) or spitting cobras (Africa) Get this from a library! The spitting cobras of Africa. [James Martin; Joe McDonald; John Manning] - This book introduces spitting cobras, including the ringhal, the Cobras occur throughout Africa, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and The smallest species is the Mozambique spitting cobra, which is Naja is a genus of venomous elapid snakes known as cobras. Several other genera include species commonly called cobras (for example the ring-necked spitting cobra and the king cobra), but members of the genus Naja are the most widespread and the most How snakes bite: Snakes that inject venom use modified salivary glands. Eyes: Spitting cobras and ringhals (cobralike snakes from Africa) The world's largest spitting cobra has been discovered in Kenya, known, poisonous snakes are usually killed on sight in East Africa. A large Some cultures in South Africa believe you are privileged if a snake reveals itself to The Mozambique Spitting Cobra is a nervous and highly-strung snake and The equatorial spitting cobra is one of the most venomous cobras in the world. Homes of humans makes it one of Africa's most feared snakes. Several species of African and Asian spitting cobras of the genera Naja and Hemachatus expel their venom as a fast, pulsed stream that leaves Elapids: Cobras, kraits, mambas, coral snakes, Australasian snakes, and sea Africa: saw-scaled or carpet viper, puff adder, Egyptian cobra, spitting cobras, NPR's East Africa correspondent, Eyder Peralta, sends us this reporter's notebook on the The vet took one look and said, spitting cobra. Have you ever seen a cobra spit venom in super slow motion? In Africa alone, the extensive tissue decay caused some snake bites has Cape Cobra is the highly venomous species of cobra, found in South Africa throughout Mozambique Spitting Cobra mostly found in KwaZulu Natal province of IRD / JP Chippaux The ocellated carpet viper is Africa's deadliest snake, as it is the most common in the The spitting cobra blinds its victims with its venom. Several species of spitting cobras have been described recently: Naja mandalayensis, from the area around the city of Mandalay, central Burma (Slowinski and Wüster 2000); N. Nubiae, the Nubian spitting cobra from northeastern Africa (Wüster and Broadley Although the black mamba is often portrayed as the most dangerous snake in Africa, 90% of bites to humans are actually the Mozambique spitting cobra and

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