{"id":422502,"date":"2026-04-06T07:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/422502\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:41:09","slug":"from-mimicry-to-playing-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/422502\/","title":{"rendered":"From mimicry to playing dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The King Cobra is the world&#8217;s longest snake of all types, growing to lengths of 5.85 meters. Research from the Smithsonian\u2019s National Zoo &amp; Conservation Biology Institute shows that the King Cobra has a unique defence position: it can elevate the first one-third of its body off the ground and expand its elongated hood.<\/p>\n<p>The venom from the King Cobra has post-synaptic neurotoxins that act on the central nervous systems of animals such as large mammals (including humans and Elephants), which in turn leads to both respiratory failure and subsequent death.<\/p>\n<p>PC: Google Gemini<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The King Cobra is the world&#8217;s longest snake of all types, growing to lengths of 5.85 meters. Research&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[273],"tags":[189110,18,189109,19,17,34492,189111,189112,133,16428,189108,461],"class_list":["post-422502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-batesian-mimicry","tag-eire","tag-hognose-snake","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-king-cobra","tag-playing-dead","tag-predator-evasion-techniques","tag-science","tag-snakes","tag-survival-strategies-of-snakes","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116356637190720252","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}