A clash of royalty: King cobra cannibalism documented for the first time in Singapore


King cobras are somewhat resistant to the venom of their own kind, so it may take a while for one party to be subdued. - DARYL TAN

SINGAPORE: “Huge snake!!!” read the caption of a video that snake photographer Daryl Tan’s father sent him in the afternoon on Thursday (June 6).

At that point, the elder Tan did not realise that he was possibly the first person here to have recorded on camera a king cobra cannibalising another member of its species, swallowing it whole while it was still alive.

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