Monocled Cobra

• GeneralIt has a single white ring on its hood, rather than the spectacles of the Indian cobra.
• Its hood carries a single ring with a central dot, like a monocle, as against the pair of rings joined by a line on the hood of the Indian cobra: it is the quickest way to tell them apart.
• Some populations are able to spit venom as well as bite, an ability that varies geographically within the same species.
• It thrives in rice fields by following the rodents, and that overlap with the most densely populated farmland of South-East Asia explains its record of snakebites.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (reptile)

Habitat and environment

Rice fields, wetlands, grassland and farmland of South-East Asia and eastern India

Sexual maturity

3 years

Gestation / incubation

60 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

25 eggs

Sources consulted: https://www.iucnredlist.org/ | https://animaldiversity.org/ | https://es.wikipedia.org/

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.