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🔆Monocled Cobra

✅Recently, researchers carried out proteomic and biochemical investigations to explore the diversity in the Monocled Cobra (Naja kaouthia) composition across different geographic regions.

✅It is a venomous cobra species widespread across South and Southeast Asia. 
✅Some populations of the Monocled cobra have the ability to spit venom, earning them the name "Indian spitting cobra".
They have an O-shaped, or monocellate hood pattern, which has the "spectacle" pattern on the rear of their hood.

📍Habitat: 
✅It prefers habitats associated with water, such as paddy fields, swamps, and mangroves, but can also be found in grasslands, shrublands, and forests.
✅It is also found in agricultural land and human settlements including cities.
✅Distribution: It inhabits eastern and northeastern India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and southern China.
✅Ecological significance: They play an important role in their ecosystem. They help to maintain the balance of prey species and control agricultural pests such as rats and mice.
✅Conservation status
IUCN Red List: Least Concern (LC)

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🔆Monocled Cobra

✅Recently, researchers carried out proteomic and biochemical investigations to explore the diversity in the Monocled Cobra (Naja kaouthia) composition across different geographic regions.

✅It is a venomous cobra species widespread across South and Southeast Asia. 
✅Some populations of the Monocled cobra have the ability to spit venom, earning them the name "Indian spitting cobra".
They have an O-shaped, or monocellate hood pattern, which has the "spectacle" pattern on the rear of their hood.

📍Habitat: 
✅It prefers habitats associated with water, such as paddy fields, swamps, and mangroves, but can also be found in grasslands, shrublands, and forests.
✅It is also found in agricultural land and human settlements including cities.
✅Distribution: It inhabits eastern and northeastern India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and southern China.
✅Ecological significance: They play an important role in their ecosystem. They help to maintain the balance of prey species and control agricultural pests such as rats and mice.
✅Conservation status
IUCN Red List: Least Concern (LC)

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#environment

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