King Cobra

                                                       Ophiophagus hannah

                                                            By: KMC   

Kingdome | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genius and Species

 | Fun Facts | Art and Poetry | Work Cited |

Kingdom: Animalia:

• Multicelluler

• Heterotrophs

• Cells organized into tissue

• Lack of a cell wall

• Capable of complex and rapid movement.

• The tissue is specialized to some degree to perform specific functions

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Phylum:Choradta

• Complete digestive system

• segmented body, including segmented muscles

• Three germ layers and a well developed column

• Single, dorsal, hollow nerve cord, usually with an enlarged anterior  (Brain)

• Boney endoskeleton usually presented

• bilateral symmetry

• ventral heart, with dorsal and ventral blood vessels and closed blood systems

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Class: Reptilia

• Lower jaw

• A full skeleton

• Cold blooded

•  shreds skin

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Order: squamata

• Flesh eater

• excellent scenes

• amphisbaenians

• lizards

• snakes

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Family Squamate

• cobras

• coral snakes

• kraits

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Genius and Specise: Ophiophagus

• The King cobra eats other snakes, such as rat snakes, kraits, other cobras, and pythons.

• The king cobra is an averages to 3.7m in length and it grows to 5.5m.

•  The king cobra are oviparous and lays about 21-40 eggs

• The female pushes leaves and branches into a pile where the eggs can be warm.

• Females protecting her self very aggressively and attacks with out warning.

• The prey is found by its odor witch the fork tong helps the king cobra, then its only a mater of time till he attacks.

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Fun Facts:

• The king cobra sometimes eat other snakes.

• King cobras generally shed four to six times a year in two weeks

• Throughout its entire range from India to Indonesia, the king cobra causes fewer than five human deaths a year—about one-fifth as many as caused by rattlers in North America

• King cobras are not actually cobras at all—they belong to a different genus.

• Besides being longer than other cobras, king cobras appear to be more intelligent.

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Art and Poetry:

My drawn Animal picture

My poem about my animal King of all snakes In a hole were it hides Nest in a hole Goes around finding meat Can eat it's own kind Outstanding tough can smell for meat But it has a deadly bit Runs to hide from killing pry At the light of day a king cobra can lay about 20-40 eggs

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Work Cited:

"Ophiophagus hannah." University of Michigan museum. 11 Feb 2004. <http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Ophiophagus_hannah.html. >.

Firoe, Mrs.. "classification of living things." Parade of Life. 11 Feb 2004. <>.

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