by Warren Klein » Tue Jun 19, 2012 9:16 am
Thanks for everyone’s further comments. I think we can all agree that these are two stunning examples of Naja melanoleuca and specimens like these would be highly desired among elapid lovers. I think I should mention that there have actually been 3 specimens with the bright yellow/orange and hood marking found here. My back to back (alternate) nyami on the forum, captured the 1st specimen over a year ago. I will ask him to also post it here under this thread. Besides the wow factor of these cobras, the most interesting thing to me is that they shammed death so easily. It would have been interesting to find out if the first specimen which nyami captured would have also exhibited this death shamming behavior. Maybe he just did not muck with the cobra as much as i did as he never observed this behavior. The Forest cobra is by far the most common venomous snake which we find here and out of all the specimens captured (in nearly 7 years) it has only been the bright ones with the hood marking which sham death.
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