首页|Collection of vulnerable nests with eggs for the captive incubation of king cobra Ophiophagus hannah as a conservation strategy in Mizoram north-east India
Collection of vulnerable nests with eggs for the captive incubation of king cobra Ophiophagus hannah as a conservation strategy in Mizoram north-east India
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The king cobra Ophiophagus hannah (Cantor, 1936) is the world's largest venomous snake inhabiting a wide variety of niches such as grassland, forests, shrubland, wetlands, mangrove swamps, agricultural areas and may occur in the vicinity of rural villages (Whitaker & Captain, 2008; Stuart et al., 2012). It is widely distributed across south Asia, southeast Asia, and east Asia at altitudes up to at least 2,000 m a.s.l. (Waltner, 1975; Das et al., 2008). It is the only snake species where females actively construct a nest from leaf litter or other plant material (Loveridge, 1946; Schmidt & Inger, 1957; Whitaker et al., 2013; Hrima et al., 2014; Dolia, 2018). Nests have been seen between April and July (Daniel, 1983; Whitaker et al., 2013). The females are known to guard the nest, sometimes residing in the nest's upper chamber or coiling on top of the nest (Loveridge, 1946; Whitaker et al., 2013; Vanlalchhuana et al., 2017), and subsequently deserting the nest when the neonates hatch (Kannan, 1993). Females can lay up to 14-53 eggs in a single clutch (Das, 2012; Hrima et al., 2014; Burchfield, 1977). On one occasion, twin nests at a distance of only 6.6 m apart were reported from the northern India (Dolia & Das, 2020).
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