And now the king cobra is a new one.

The king cobra is quite remarkable for several reasons.

The cobra will always come to the sound of the flute.

Nor' nor' east. We're heading for the Isle of Cobra.

I'm putting you ashore tomorrow at Cobra and giving you the guns.

Cobras are always very alert.

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

The people of this part of India worship the king cobra.

And the final word is that there is a king cobra looking over our shoulders.

Well, the king cobra is literally a keystone species in these rainforests.

Usually they eat larger snakes like rat snakes, or even cobras.

In Vedic understanding, feeding a snake, a cobra, milk, will increase its venom the milk becomes poisonous, it's converted into poison.

But there was a little piece left and that was the payment for the insurance for COBRA.

This crocodile, which grows to almost 20 feet long in the northern rivers, and this charismatic snake, the king cobra.

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.

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

So I called my wealthy, beautiful friend and she and her new husband anonymously wrote a personal check every month to cover that COBRA.

My first experience with king cobras was in '72 at a magical place called Agumbe, in Karnataka, this state.

And from that sun, which has a small cobra in it which signifies that this is the supreme deity.

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.

No, there is only one true God so we can see the cobra, we can see the sun disk and then we can see rays of light that pour down and if you look closely you can see hands at the ends of those rays except for the rays that terminate right at the faces of the King and Queen, and there you see not only hands but also

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.

47. One major crop in the Territory, copra, was no longer providing revenue for Tokelau because of heavy damage caused by natural disasters, transport problems, and marketing techniques not yet fully understood.

The Pulenuku believed, however, that in the future, a gradual improvement in copra production as well as better use of marine resources could help alleviate some of the pressing economic problems.

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.