In the forested hills of southern India, a venomous 10-foot-long ... Seen from below, the snakes have a lighter creamy-yellow belly. Western Ghats king cobras are a “hill-dwelling species ...

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This iconic snake, with its bulbous head and red, yellow, and black bands, is famous as much for its potent venom as for the many rhymes—"Red and yellow, kill a fellow; red and black ...