Cobra, she is a poisonous Indian cobra, it is considered wise and noble. She seldom attacks the person, and at emergence of danger gets up in the menacing rack and inflates "hood".
Name
In the world there are about 20 species of cobras. The cobra is distinguished from them. She was so nicknamed not for nothing. Having felt threat, she hisses and moves apart muscles several edges, opening "hood". At this time the drawing behind, similar to the turned points becomes well visible.
The drawing became for this snake a peculiar charm. It frightens off from her the most artful predators and those who decided to creep and snatch on it behind. Having seen "points", the enemy, most likely, will tarry, or perhaps at all to decide not to attack, having decided that someone stares at him.
Where lives
The cobra lives in the countries of Central Asia. So, she can be met in the nature of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan. She lives not only in the jungle, but also on rice plantations, in city parks.
Sizes
The cobra can reach 1.5-2 m in length. Its movements are slow and very clumsy.
Features
Unlike other loner snakes, the Indian cobras during the marriage period live married couples. Once a year, at the end of spring or at the beginning of summer, snakes lay eggs. And in 1.5-2 months from them the posterity – from about 10 to 20 vipers no more than 30 cm long appears. The cubs of cobras who just left eggs are already poisonous. But while they study well to hunt, only insects and other small living creatures are included in their menu.
Adult cobras eat rodents, frogs, toads, other animals and also small birds. They are able to float, climb perfectly trunks and branches of trees therefore they without effort reach bird's nests and ruin them. In bondage the Indian cobra drinks milk about a liter a day and eats couple of rats or a small chicken a week.
In India there is an ancient profession – snake charmers. Surprising public, they entice dangerous cobras from a wicker basket and force them to be shaken in dance under sounds of the pipe. At the same time they do not bite the owners. What forces them "to dance to the tune of others"?
Biologists consider that snakes not only have no ear for music, but also at all hear nothing. So monotonous music cannot influence them. The cobra just repeats movements of a flute and reacts to vibration from percussion of a leg of the exorcist. However, and they are not such and desperate and fearless people. Exorcists avoid sharp movements that the cobra did not bite them.
For absolute safety some conjurers disaccustom snakes to bite. At trainings they force a cobra to bite hot objects. Others in general save her from poisonous teeth. So the dangerous cobra does not become more terrible simple already.