CONTENTS The Chilling Cobra Spy the Cobra A Cobra's Childhood Home Life Stealthy Senses Stay Away What's for Dinner Venomous Hunters Caring for Cobras Glossary Index 4 7 8 11 12 15 16 19 20 22 23 Words in the glossary appear in bold type the first time they are used in the text 3
4 THE CHILLING COBRA A long hungry snake slithers through an Asian forest on the hunt for its next meal The snake's tongue flicks out to smell the air Then a mouse darts across the snake's path The snake strikes sinking its long pointed teeth into the mouse Gulp Meet the cobra a deadly snake with venom in its bite A big king cobra can stand up and be eye to eye with a human But while cobras have killer senses they're more likely to slither away than attack another predator Let's get to know the chilling cobra better FATAL FACTS Experts disagree about how many species or kinds of cobras there are Depending on what you consider a cobra there are between 20 to about 270 species of this snake across the world
The king cobra is perhaps the best known type of cobra as it is often seen alongside snake charmers It is the longest venomous snake in the world 5
