Cobras are always very alert.

The average lifespan of a wild king cobra is about 20 years.

The Marine Corps requested greater load carrying capability in high temperatures for the Cobra in the 1970s.

The 362 female respondents reported being beaten (16 percent), kicked (9 percent), spat on, or burned by a cigarette.

And, just like Project Tiger, our activities with the king cobra is to look at a species of animal so that we protect its habitat and everything within it.

Venom emitted from elapids, including sea snakes, kraits, cobras, king cobra, mambas, and many Australian species, contain toxins which attack the nervous system, causing neurotoxicity.

The gharial and king cobra are two of India's most iconic reptiles, and they're endangered because of polluted waterways. Conservationist Romulus Whitaker shows rare footage of these magnificent animals and urges us to save the rivers that sustain their lives and our own.

I co founded a company called Navigenics, where, if you spit into a tube and we can look look at 35 or 40 genetic markers for disease, all of which are delayable in many of the cancers you start to identify what you could get, and then we can start to work to prevent them.