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Click any photo to see a larger version. Please do not steal my photos for the purpose of advertising your own animals. All animals pictured on this page are in my collection, and owned by me. The photos were taken by me, unless otherwise labeled. I am still looking specimens of Naja philippinensis, and extra specimens of species I already have. If you have something for sale, please contact me, at the link above.
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(Golden Spitting Cobra, Malayan Spitting Cobra, Sumatran Spitting Cobra, Black Spitting Cobra) |
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 Original Female SumY-001-AD-F |
Original Male SumY-002-AD-M |
CB'06 Male SumY-003-06-M |
CB'07 Female SumY-004-07-F |
CB'07 Male SumY-005-07-M |
CB'08 Female SumY-006-08-F |
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WC AD Male SumY-007-AD-M |
CB'08 Female SumY-009-08-F |
CB'09 Male SumY-010-09-M |
CB'07 Female SumY-012-07-F |
 CB'07 Male SumY-013-07-M |
CB'11 Female SumY-016-11-F |
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These are great little Cobras. I acquired the Original Female on 11/14/01. I had heard that these had been imported to USA the past, but I had never seen one advertised for sale, or shown off in someone's collection, until this female along with 2 other females were available. Once I acquired the female, I asked around and watched the classifieds for a long time, looking for a male. Then a friend I had not seen in a while, told me he had a male, and he wanted to buy my female. I wasn't about to let her go. Several months later, on 10/30/04, he offered to sell his male to me. I fed these two for a year, making sure they were plenty big enough before attempting a breeding. .
The first year, 2006, in which I bred SumY-001-AD-F and SumY-002-AD-M, they produced 7 eggs. The eggs were huge for the size of the female. The eggs were 2.5" - 3" (6.35 - 7.6cm) long and 1" - 1.25" (2.5 - 3.17cm) in diameter. Below see the year, number of eggs laid, hatched, and sex ratio each year. I have never had a hatchling die. If the eggs hatched, the hatchling lived. These are the hardiest Cobras I have ever seen. All but one hatchling has eaten every time I tried to feed them. And, that male still ate every other time I fed him for 6 months. After that, he has eaten every time, and I still have him. Some of these have taken frozen thawed mouse pinks as their first and only meals. When they hatch out, they are a tan/orange color, with some slight dark speckling, and some have an actual pattern, as seen in the photo below. .
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Photos are of 2008 eggs and hatchlings. Click on photos to see a larger version in a new window.
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Some of the information on this page may have been copied from the publications below. |
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WCH Clinical Toxinology Resources The University of Adelaide, Australia |
The Snakes of Thailand and Their Husbandry by Merel J. Cox |
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Handbook To The Dangerously Venomous Snakes Of Myanmar by Alan E. Leviton, George R. Zug, Jens V. Vindum, and Guinevere O.U. Wogan |
Venomous Snakes Snakes in the Terrarium by Ludwig Trutnau |
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Links below copied from the website of Wolfgang Wüster http://www.bangor.ac.uk/~bss166/Taxa/AsNaja.htm SLOWINSKI, J.B. & W. WÜSTER (2000) A new cobra (Elapidae: Naja) from Myanmar (Burma). Herpetologica, 56(2): 257-270. pdf WÜSTER, W. (1992) A century of confusion: Asiatic cobras revisited. The Vivarium, 4: 14-18. pdf WÜSTER, W. (1996) Taxonomic changes and toxinology: systematic revisions of the Asiatic cobras (Naja naja species complex). Toxicon, 34(4): 399-406. pdf WÜSTER, W. (1998) The cobras of the genus Naja in India. Hamadryad, 23(1): 15-32. pdf WÜSTER, W. & R.S. THORPE (1989) Population affinities of the Asiatic cobra (Naja naja) species complex in south-east Asia: reliability and random resampling. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 36: 391-409. pdf WÜSTER, W. & R.S. THORPE (1991) Asiatic cobras: systematics and snakebite. Experientia, 47: 205-209. pdf WÜSTER, W. & R.S. THORPE (1992) Asiatic cobras: population systematics of the Naja naja species complex (Serpentes: Elapidae) in India and Central Asia. Herpetologica, 48(1): 69-85. pdf WÜSTER, W. & R.S. THORPE (1994) Naja siamensis, a cryptic species of venomous snake revealed by mtDNA sequencing. Experientia, 50: 75-79. pdf WÜSTER, W., R.S. THORPE, M.J. COX, P. JINTAKUNE & J. NABHITABHATA (1995) Population systematics of the snake genus Naja (Reptilia: Serpentes: Elapidae) in Indochina: multivariate morphometrics and comparative mitochondrial DNA sequencing (cytochrome oxidase I). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 8: 493-510. pdf WÜSTER, W., D.A. WARRELL, M.J. COX, P. JINTAKUNE & J. NABHITABHATA (1997) Redescription of Naja siamensis Laurenti, 1768 (Serpentes: Elapidae), a widely overlooked spitting cobra from Southeast Asia: geographic variation, medical importance and designation of a neotype. Journal of Zoology, 243: 771-788. pdf
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