{"id":9952,"date":"2021-01-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/egyptian-cobra\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T09:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:14:22","slug":"cobra-egiziano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/kruger-national-park-news\/kruger-park-reptile-guide\/egyptian-cobra\/","title":{"rendered":"Cobra a bocca stretta"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Snouted Cobra<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Name<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Snouted Cobra [<em>Naja annulifera<\/em>]. In southern Africa it was long known as the Egyptian Cobra [<em>Naja haje<\/em>], but it is now recognised as a separate species; the true Egyptian cobra lives in North and West Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Appearance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This cobra\u2019s colors can be light to dark brown or dark yellow they can also be black or gray, the cobra often presents rings around its neck which is usually black. They can grow between 1-2.5 meters in length.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These cobras are known to prey on frogs, small mammals, birds, lizards and other snakes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distribution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This cobra can be found in Northern Gauteng, Northern Kwazulu-Natal, Limpopo, North West, it can also be found in Eastern Botswana, Zimbabwe and Southern Mozambique<\/p>\n<p><strong>Breeding<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They lay between 8 and 33 eggs, the babies average 22-34 cm in length after they hatched.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Snouted Cobra is equipped with neurotoxic venom (this venom attacks the nervous system).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snouted Cobra Name Snouted Cobra [Naja annulifera]. In southern Africa it was long known as the Egyptian Cobra [Naja haje], but it is now recognised as a separate species; the true Egyptian cobra lives in North and West Africa. Appearance This cobra\u2019s colors can be light to dark brown or dark yellow they can also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kruger-park-reptile-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}