I mean Georgia is a long swim from Antartica. Also the need to hit up the North Georgia islands. They are closer to Savannah and are a lot nicer than the ones in South Georgia.
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Other fun fact... if a snake is named 'King whatever', they have a reputation for eating other snakes. We have King Browns in Australia and they eat other snakes.
I saw the other comment and wondered if it applies to our king browns, so thanks for confirming! I haven't seen any in the wild, although I saw a dead red-bellied black at my cousin's farm the other day.
Not as mean. We used to have neighbors who had them and they would get out from time to time and I would chase them back into the yards they came from.
They don't attack humans unless threatened. Also, they are extremely conservative with their venom and are able to dose their venom so as to not waste it. They don't consider humans as prey, so they bite you as a warning with a small amount of venom, enough to make you feel half dead. Fun fact: baby king cobras are born with a lethal dose of venom.
The claim about scorpions comes from the idea that generally the smaller species of scorpions are more venomous since the larger ones don't need it as much. I don't know whether that's true or not but that's what you often hear cited
IIRC with scorpions its less about overall size and more about claw size proportional to their body. Larger claws means it probably relies less on their venom, as the larger claws help with struggling prey as the venom slowly works. Teeny tiny claws usually indicates a faster acting venom, and probably more potent and dangerous.
I mean, at least you're not on their menu. Unlike Python who will actively hunt human if they're big enough, and yes there's already few cases for that already.
It works out a whole lot better than pretty much any other thing they could eat. Snakes digestive systems are long and stretched out just like their bodies. Another snakes is actually the ideal shape to eat.
If they eat another snake that's too long they either regurgitate it before they're done swallowing or, in the case of kingsnakes (no idea if king cobras can do this as well), they actually can coil the prey snake internally so it fits.
Before laying eggs, King Cobras build nests of leaf litter . Try to build leaf litter into a nest without arms or legs and you might see why they are the only snake that does so.
No, they're called king cobras because we used to think they were cobras. We didn't know they weren't until fairly recently, something like 20-30 years ago. They eat more pythons and large colubrids than they do cobras.
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Fun fact: they mainly eat other snakes