The King Cobra, or Ophiophagus hannah, belongs to the class of Reptilia, and lives in eastern China in the dense highland forests. The King Cobra is widely known for the hood that it has to warn off creatures when it feels threatened or in danger. If the animal/thing does not heed the warning, it gets a venomous bite from it. The venom in the fangs blocks nerve signals from the brain, paralyzing the creature, then dies if not treated immediately. The King Cobra also has a secret weapon: camouflage. It may not be that secret, but the Cobra easily blends into the surrounding floor. Any unaware prey that happens to walk by, might soon die.
This animal, similar other wild animals, has developed structures or physical body parts for specific functions, or reasons, in order to survive. One of the three that I have decided to note, was the heat pits/vents. This helps the cobra hunt; for example, when they are following their prey, they can’t really get confused; for the heat vents that enables them to look around in infrared, enabling them to sense body heat. The next structure that I chose to tell you, is the hood. This is what the King Cobra is widely known for, the weird skin thing on the sides of its neck
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These things are called ‘biotic factors’, or living things that affect something. In this case, mongooses if mice, the main source of food for the cobra, perish, and us. Mongooses are fast, large rodents that love the taste of King Cobras. They are immune to the venom of the King Cobra, which is actually quite interesting. To the next biotic factor, mice. Cobras love the taste of a plump mouse, but are known to eat other cobras if desperate. But, mice are the preferred diet, and there would be some trouble if they went away. The last biotic factor, is humans. Yes, in China, the King Cobra is a nice meal to eat. Not only do we eat them, but we also confuse them with the snake
The comparison of the rattlesnake to a bigger, more frightening, and yet less deadly creature makes the former seem dangerous. While a blacksnake would “flee at the sight of a man”, the rattler proved its fearlessness with the way he “held his ground”. The rattler is cocky, and for good reason, because his poison could kill the man much easier than the theoretical blacksnake could. The man is in a life-threatening situation and the reader is likely to sympathize with his fear and worry. The author uses violent diction when describing the snake to make us see him as a vicious creature, in need of killing to keep others safe. Even dead, the rattler “may still bite”. He needs to be kept as far as possible from people - especially vulnerable people, such as young children - in order to protect them. The author includes this hostile wording to bring awareness to the fact that the snake is remorseless, even in death, and that taking its life is noble and just. Finally, the snake’s “little song of death” is personified negatively by the man to show that the snake is the villain in the story. Life is, according to the rattlesnake, “dear and would be dearly sold”. It comes to light in this phrase that the snake is looking for revenge from the man’s actions. The rattler is not as innocent as he may have initially seemed. As he attempts at the man’s life to bring
...ightly to allow some air to pass underneath it. Snakes can regulate their temperature by placing different proportions of their bodies in sun or in shade. The variations are numerous, but the end result is the same ¡V some degree of temperature regulation in reptiles.
In the book Rikki crushes all but one egg of Nagaina’s to bribe Nagaina into staying away from the kid. Rikki said, “What’sthe price for a snake’s egg? For a young cobra? For a king cobra? For the last-the very last of the brood? The ants are eating all the others by the melon bed.” Also in the book the snake flees with the egg trying to outrun Rikki. In the book it states, “He had forgotten about the egg. It lay on the veranda and Nagaina came nearer and nearer to it, til at last, while Rikki-Tikki was drawing breath, She caught it in her mouth, turned to the veranda steps, and flew like an arrow down the path.” Also in the movie the mongoose booked it right into the snake hole where many mongooses never come out. (movie) The movie shows “Rikki chasing Nagaia down a hole where the snake lived.” Also in the movie Rikki killed Nagaina, and whatever cobra ever dared to try to threaten him or the family. In conclusion that is how the Resolution is related to the book and the
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The book Rikki Tikki Tavi is about a mongoose who saves a human family from snakes. In the beginning Rikki Tikki is washed away from his home in a summer flood, where humans rescue him. He decides to stay and meets Nag and Nagaina ,two king cobras who try to kill him. The young boy who saved Rikki finds him in the garden but
A red-eyed beast. A fuzzy mammal. A snake killer. A mongoose? In the short story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi written by:Rudyard Kipling. His story takes place in India,when a mongoose gets flooded out of his home in a storm, he ends up in a garden. A family finds him and takes him into their bungalow. He goes around their garden and meets all the other creatures and introduces himself as Rikki-Tikki-Tavi when Nag starts threatening Rikki-Tikki. Rikki barely has time to jump when Nag’s evil wife,Nagaina come whizzing under Rikki. This starts the war between the mongoose and snakes. Rikki kills Karait and Nag and is coming for Nagaina. When Darzee’s wife tells Rikki-Tikki about Nagaina’s eggs that are soon going to hatch, he knows
The movie and the book both star Rikki Tikki Tavi, a valiant mongoose that hunted and killed two King Cobras. There is the family, consisting of Teddy and his mother and father. They both are referred as Teddy’s mother and Teddy’s father. There is also Nag and Nagaina, 2 king cobras which Rikki fights and kills. There is Darzee, the Tailor bird (Movie), whose wife helps Rikki destroy the eggs of the cobras. “Darzee, the tailor bird, helped him, and Chuchundra, the muskrat, who never comes out into the middle of the floor, but always creeps round by the wall, gave him advice; but Rikki-Tikki did the real fighting” (Kipling, page 143) The story describes Chuchundra as a shy muskrat, who never has spirit enough to go into the middle of the floor. Darzee, the tailor bird and his clever wife. In the film, however, Rikki is much more energetic and moving around all over the people
The cobra, ready to strike, takes its final aim at the mongoose until it strikes. The mongoose eats the snake up as it does with most other cobras. Rikki-tikki-tavi is a story of a mongoose, whose name is Rikki-tikki-tavi, who kills a total of three snakes in order to save his family’s life. Rikki started out flowing downstream in an river in India. A human family found him and basically adopted him. Two snakes try to kill Rikki and his new family, but Rikki kills them before they can do that. Both the printed and video versions of Rikki-tikki-tavi were enjoyable to read and listen to, but there were some similarities and differences between the two.
The snake was not aware of the man’s intentions was cautious but not yet preparing for an attack. The rattlesnake “lay ridged” through its mistrust of the man did not feel threatened so his “body was undulant” not preparing for an attack. Because of its natural instincts the snake was wary of the man’s presence but did not feel provoked enough to set up a defense. The usual instincts would have been to give a strong attack but choose not to do so. Still attentive to the man’s possible actions, the snake presents him with a warning for both their sake. Therefore as the man raised his weapon the snake set up its rattling and “shook his fair but furious signal” warning the man he “made an unprovoked attack”. The snake had not planned on attacking the man so instead of reacting swiftly the snake had given the man a warning. By doing so the snake shows its value of life because he left the man chance in avoiding an outcome with death for either side. Consequently having misjudged the man’s intent it is left with little time to protect itself from an unexpected attack. With the man suddenly attacking the snake with a hoe it “struck passionately” until it “was soon dead”. As a result of not being able to assemble an attack the snake is left with it’s only chance of winning by striking hard but with ineffective moves. Thus readers feel sympathy for the snake because it had not called for an attack that would have taken either
If a king cobra is close to you it can jump up to be eye level with the average human. It then spits venom into their eyes. This can lead to blindness if it's very serious. If this venom gets into the victim's blood stream, they will die.The king cobra can spit its venom 4 to 8 feet long . So if you ever come in contact with a king cobra, the best thing to do is keep your distance and protect your eyes.
Throughout several myths, monsters are described as many diverse creatures. At first glance, they all seem very distinctive. However, each monster is like a combination of several qualities and characteristics that are matched in different ways to form the monsters that appear in myths such as Hercules, Bellerophon, and Perseus. All monsters have very distinct looks that make them inferior to humans. Generally, they are a mixture of two or more different animals such as snakes, lions, or humans and they may have multiple heads. For example, Cerberus was a horrific three-headed dog that had the tail of a dragon and his back was covered with snakes. Several monsters have some part of them from a snake. Snakes symbolize an evil quality and that is why many monsters are forms of them. Cerberus had his whole back covered in snakes and a dragon tail. Both of these are snake-like parts that contribute to Cerberus looking terrifying. His tail is from a dragon which is very similar to a snake and his back is filled with snakes like fur. The Hydra of Lerna is also an im...
The story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”, written by Rudyard Kipling, tells the tale about Rikki Tikki’s war-like situation with the beastly cobras. A bungalow in India is protected by one ferocious mongoose. Only Rikki-Tikki’s protectiveness, tenacity and intelligence will allow him to overcome the garden’s most feared creatures.
Next, the mongoose has many different defenses that could be used to find food, and much more. According to Grolier Online (2015) “Mongooses are almost always victorious because of their speed, agility, and timing, and also because of their thick coat.” By being quick, and by having great timing the mongoose could easily avert the King Cobra’s strikes. Also, According to Funk and Wagnall’s (2014) “to whose poison they are not immune-by agile avoidance of their strikes.” By being agile (which means quick and well-coordinated in movement.) the mongoose can move swiftly to avoid the cobra’s
The action of the snake at the beginning of the encounter was portrayed in a calm and collective fashion. The snake “held his ground in calm watchfulness; he was not even rattling yet, much less was he coiled.” The raw and unfiltered statement of the snake action made it clear to the audience that the snake did not make the attack or even attempted to look like he was on guard. To the readers, this meant the snake was not sending an danger signal. No danger signal from the snake but a hoe was aimed at it meant that attack toward the snake was unprovoked. The realization of the fact that the snake wanted nothing to bother with this man’s life helped the readers to understand the snake’s point of view, even though limited. In addition to the intention of the snake, the details of the reactions from snake to the attack of the reader help understand the snake’s feeling and instinct at that moment. The panic of the snake by the way “he struck passionately once more at the hoe…” could be sympathized by the readers through the description of its action. The feeling of fear and survival instinct was something a lot of audience thought could only belong to human. The reader got a rude awakening with fact that this snake’s feelings of terror and its desire to live was just so similar to a human. Even though it was a creature no human can relate to, at that moment, every reader could step into its place and imagined the horror of knowing that it can die and death will come very soon. Sympathy for the snake was not an anticipated feeling and sensation for the readers. The reader expected to feel apathy or hatred toward the snake because of the negative connotation that went along with the animal. However, the empathy for the snake was introduced through the calm and collected description of the snake’s action as well as the intense desire of it to
Periodically, there are news stories about a giant pet snake that eats a kid, or a pet cobra that escapes and terrorizes a town. Most people think these stories are exaggerated, however, these stories are completely true. People keep exotic animals as pets for the wow factor. Humans believe they can control all animals regardless if the animal is dangerous or not. Some people like keeping deadly animals in their house because it gives them that shock factor. Or, owning a venomous snack makes them feel powerful. Only trained professionals should work with large carnivorous reptiles, venomous reptiles and large snakes capable of constricting a person to