King cobra's food is usually other snakes. King cobra has antivenom in its body, so when other poisonous snakes bite King cobra, King cobra is usually safe and sound. Food includes pythons of appropriate size, other kinds of poisonous snakes and non-poisonous snakes, such as cobra, golden ring snake, silver ring snake, rat snake and so on. When food is scarce, they even eat other similar snakes. Therefore, the king cobra is also known as the "snake evil star".

King snakes and Zaocys have no ability to resist the venom of other snakes.

Extended data

King cobra is a snake with high IQ. They hunt other snakes and can tell whether they are poisonous or not. King cobra will not use venom easily when preying on non-poisonous snakes. It will only take a bite and let its prey fight hard until it dies.

When it preys on poisonous snakes, it doesn't act rashly, but constantly provokes. When the opponent is finally provoked to attack it, the king cobra will dodge its guard. Finally, when the prey is exhausted and heartless, it will seize the opportunity to bite its head and neck and release venom to kill it.

King cobra is agile and its head can rotate flexibly. It can not only attack back and forth, left and right, but also jump vertically to attack objects above the head. After biting something, it is not easy to spill it. The dry poison in the venom is about 100mg and the average lethal dose is 12mg. The bitten person will have swelling, nausea, abdominal pain, respiratory paralysis, speech disorder, coma and other symptoms within a few minutes. People will die if they are not treated with drugs in time within half an hour after being bitten.

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