Cobra species like this one possess strong neurotoxic venom, which affects the nervous system and causes paralysis. The Egyptian cobra primarily preys on birds, small mammals and lizards ...

One of the largest naja cobras, the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) can grow up to 8 feet (2.4 meters) long. This snake is famous in both mythology and history, and some believe it to have caused the ...

Among the missing: three Egyptian cobras whose bite is usually fatal, one deadly poisonous Bandy-Bandy and two mildly poisonous sand snakes. A keeper had found one sand snake when it bit him ...