Largest Spitting Cobra Discovered
Anthony Childs, a guide and collector at eastern Kenya's Bio-Ken Snake Farm, moves in to capture an Ashe's spitting cobra, of the newly identified Naja ashei species.
The Naja ashei, also known as a large brown spitting cobra, can kill up to 20 people with one bite. Researchers at Bio-Ken milked one specimen and drew 6.2 milliliters of venom, which is among the largest amounts of venom ever extracted from a snake at one time, they said in December 2007.
They have also seen the snake devour rabbits, 5-foot-long (152-centimeter) puff adder snakes, and 2-foot-long (60-centimeter) monitor lizards.
