How the King cobra Lives

Question 1 · multiple choice

Which documentary location is most likely to feature a wild King cobra?

freshwater rivers and streams with vegetated banks forests, bamboo thickets, wetlands, and farmland edges woodland, parks, orchards, and mature gardens cold rivers when young and spawning, open North Atlantic as adults

Question 2 · multiple choice

Which natural buffet would be most useful to a King cobra?

mainly tough grasses, with some leaves and stems fruit, nuts, insects, crayfish, eggs, and human food waste mainly other snakes, including some venomous species squid, fish, and carrion taken from the sea surface

Question 3 · multiple choice

A researcher checks a King cobra's movement log. Which pattern is most believable?

most active around dawn and dusk hunts mainly by day does not follow normal daylight cycles in permanent darkness usually active by day

Question 4 · multiple choice

A footprint-and-motion survey follows a King cobra. Which result is most likely?

glides over ground, climbs, and swims leaps across cliffs using powerful hind legs and a balancing tail walks long distances and stamps prey with rapid powerful kicks swims with body waves and walks slowly on tiny limbs

Question 5 · multiple choice

Which adaptation would be most useful to a King cobra in its normal environment?

a large casque may amplify calls and strengthen the bill without being solid raises the front body and spreads a narrow hood to warn threats external gills and a finned tail allow lifelong aquatic breathing and movement mucus and fine cilia carry trapped food toward the mouth

Question 6 · multiple choice

Which reproductive strategy is used by a King cobra?

a female guards tens of thousands of eggs and stops feeding until they hatch eggs are laid one at a time on milkweed leaves the female builds and guards a nest mound of leaves a single infant usually remains dependent on its mother for years

Question 7 · multiple choice

What would a behavioural scientist most likely report about a King cobra?

usually lives alone or in a small family group lives socially and uses communal dung piles often gathers loosely where overhead prey is common mostly solitary outside breeding

Question 8 · multiple choice

Why might conservationists monitor a King cobra as part of a whole ecosystem?

helps regulate populations of other snakes keeps grasslands open and leaves shorter growth for other grazers disperses seeds and consumes many aquatic and land invertebrates connects distant ocean food webs and brings marine nutrients to islands

Question 9 · multiple choice

Which reaction would be natural for a threatened King cobra?

adult males carry venomous ankle spurs used mainly in rivalry warns with hood, growl-like hiss, and controlled strikes retreats around the trunk and uses loud calls and drumming uses speed, camouflage, and deep pools

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A king cobra a new rattle segment is added after shedding, not once per year.

True False