🐍Forest cobra
Kobra černá (Naja melanoleuca) je největší z kober rodu Naja původem z Afriky, kde obývá převážně střední a západní část kontinentu. Tento plaz dorůstá obvykle velikosti mezi 140 až 220 cm, někteří jedinci však mohou dorůst délky až 270 cm. Vyskytuje se především na území nížinných lesů a vlhkých savan. Nepatří mezi takzvané plivající kobry. Tento druh se dožívá vysokého věku. Je znám případ kobry černé, jež se v zajetí dožila 35 let a stala se tak nejdéle žijícím jedovatým hadem v zajetí.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- Body mass
- 6.96 kg
- Body length
- 2.7 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 29 years
Everything we know about the Forest cobra
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass6.96 kgrecord 2.76 kg · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Body length2.7 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan29 yearsrecord 35 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
DietCarnivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCathemeralReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousYesReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l7 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Forest cobra yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- genusNaja
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- genusNaja
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