The discovery that cobras are different enough to be four distinct species could have major real-world ramifications—in particular, developing more effective antivenom to treat snakebites
, coordinator of the organization’s Snake and Lizard Red List Authority, which surveys reptiles in the wild worldwide and determines their conservation status.“Having looked at [king cobras] closely for more than 50 years, you could see that they are … different,” says Romulus Whitaker, a longtime snake expert and founder of India’s Chennai Snake Park, a nonprofit that educates the public about snakes.
Females in the Western Ghats abandon their eggs soon after making their nest, whereas Indo-Chinese mothers guard the eggs in the nest until about a week before they hatch.Shankar hopes that the new attention to king cobras may help change attitudes toward them. “There’s a lot of hype about this snake, so people are scared to death about it,” Whitaker says. “In surveys, people will inevitably say the king cobra when asked about the most dangerous snakes,” he says. There are no official statistics on how many people are bitten by king cobras anywhere, but Whitaker says they’re likely responsible for only a handful of snakebites.
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