📸 PhotoPhoto: Luca Boldrini · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Black-necked Spitting Cobra
Naja nigricollis (Black-necked Spitting Cobra · クロクビコブラ)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 A length of over 2 m is longer than the height of a doorway (Comparison).
- 💡 The African Snakebite Institute advises using polyvalent antivenom effective against multiple venomous snakes for severely bitten patients.
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
📖 1. Overview
The Black-necked Spitting Cobra is a large cobra living in Africa that spreads its hood and spits venom when threatened.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
It is a large cobra whose body length can exceed 2 m. Its venom has strong cell-destroying power that causes pain, swelling, blisters, and tissue damage, and neurotoxic symptoms have also been reported.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It is active both day and night, travels considerable distances in search of food, and is comfortable in trees. It preys indiscriminately on rodents, birds, frogs, lizards, and other snakes including the Black Mamba.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2021) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/13265913/13265918
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • catalogueoflife.org — 45KXN
- • iucnredlist.org — 13265918
- • wikidata.org — Q386619
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:N.haje Morocco.jpg
- • africansnakebiteinstitute.com — african-snakes-black-necked-spitting-cobra
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — V. Deepak · CC BY 3.0 (Congeneric silhouette — Ophiophagus hannah)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.