Escaped 8-foot King Cobra Terrorizes Orlando, Florida
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If you’re enjoying your Labor Day weekend in Orlando, keep an eye on yours toes, because there’s a king cobra on the loose. The 8-foot snake was reported missing on September 2, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission launched a citywide search the next day. King cobras are carnivorous animals that can grow up to…
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King Cobras are in fact snake eaters. They prey almost exclusively on other snakes. However, I don’t think they are up to the task of taking on a full grown Rock Python. As described this is a young King Cobra since at full length they grow to be up to 15 feet. But, they are a cure for most all other snakes and they have been known to kill smaller versions of the constrictor snakes. They are immune from most all other snakes’ venom. One other thing, most people bitten by a King Cobra do so because they are fooling with them or they step on them. They are one of the cobras that attempt to stay away from humans and if left along are not considered and aggressive snake. They are unlike several other types of cobras, like the Monocle Cobra, that, if disturbed become very aggressive toward any thing.
Let’s hope it’s not a pregnant female. Invasive species of all sorts have devastated Florida Wildlife, already under pressure from massive pollution and wildly uncontrolled “development”
The Pythons are bad enough, but except for the “pet” that ate the baby a few years ago in Okechobee, about 30 miles from me, the victims have been animals.
Cobras? They kill a lot of people in India, I hear and we’re less prepared to deal with them.
But you know, cobras are snake eaters and perhaps they will make a dent in the exploding Python population and maybe we can import a million or so Mongooses (mongeese?) to control the cobras and when they start eating native snakes — why then let’s bring in tigers. Yeah, that should work.
But seriously, invasive plants and animals cost Floridians billions and have made millions of acres disaster areas that cost a fortune to deal with. Dogs are dying all over from the Central American Cane toads and a host of other animals too.
But of course forbidding people to bring potential disasters into the US as “pets” would interfere with their Freeeeeedom wouldn’t it?