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Show Most Deadly of Snakes. I Most ilemlly of all snakes Is thu cobra or colmi til cnpcllo. It Inhabits Inhab-its Indian and Ceylon, Uurain, the Andamana, southern China, Iiulo China ami tho Malay penlnnula unil nrrhl-j nrrhl-j pelnKO. To the west It muses to Afghanistan, Af-ghanistan, northeast Persia and tuuub I Turkestan, as tar as tho eaut coaisi of the Caspian sea. Cobras nro most active ac-tive at night. They feed on hiniill niitnialH, birds' ukiih, frogs, (Uh or tu ' heels. Thej attack hen roosts nnJ Hwnllow the eggs whole. They drlnl, a great deal of water, although tbu can live for weeks, even months, in captlWty without touching food or water. A a rule they ,iro not ag-greHslvo, ag-greHslvo, nt) it miles,' Imcrfeicd with or Irritated they rrawl along the ground with neck undiluted, looking like some harmless snake. |