Naja One of the most dangerous snakes of the World.

Attack position
The body forms a living ring, the head rises swinging like a pendulum upside down. The taut shell neck, nervous movements of the tongue ...

The attack is armed. Get out over here!
The attack is so fast and accurate that sometimes reaches to a flying bird.

Naja is also called snake Spectacled because of two circles neck.

Class: Reptiles
Order: scaled (Squamata)
Family: Boídeos
Species: Naja Naja

Cobra designates the cobra and their relatives, is not for all snakes. The most dangerous is the king cobra, 5 meters. Only 4 drops of its venom can kill a horse.

Who ever saw on TV a fakir, snake charmer playing a flute ... but not all snake charmers use cobras true in your presentations. Some harmless snakes are quite similar to Najas.
Some can even "delight" the true Naja snakes, and give kisses to them.

Venom of Naja

If a naja bites a man, its venom can kill you.

If someone directly inject into the blood things that usually come without problems, you will probably die too.

But if a person drinking the poison of the cobra, will have a strong irritation to mucous of the mouth and intestines, but not die.

So do not say "poisonous animals," but "poisonous animals", able to inject a toxic substance into the bloodstream.

The naja venom, as our rattlesnakes, is neurotic (i.e., poisons the nervous system).

The poison injected into the bloodstream, passes to the nervous system and starts destroying its cells. If the victim does not immediately receive serum antinaja begins to go blind after paralytic and finally dies.

Arch enemy

The mongoose, relative of Brazilian coati, is the most dangerous opponent of the cobra, whenever they face one of the two dies.
The mongoose takes the best most of the time, and the snake is that dies.
The mongoose has some immunity to the poison, but if the sting hit a vein or artery, it dies.

He is not afraid of the snake, and has its agility and speed to be able to attack the snake by the neck (there she can not bite).

Reproduction of Naja

The snakes, and bats rarely build their nests. But the female naja-king makes nests of two chambers to lay their eggs.

It uses the head and body as a hook to attach a pile of twigs, dead leaves, grass and earth, make a hole in it and lay 20 to 40 eggs.

After the cobra joins more vegetation to cover them and make another hole at the top, where it is lying to protect her brood.

If a person approaches, it will be attacked fiercely.

Only when the young are born and go away it is that the female leaves the nest.

Food cobra Naja

Birds, rodents, reptiles and other mammals.
The naja prefers to hunt small animals that they can be swallowed whole, but its poison would drop smoothly a buffalo.

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