How does a king cobra complete mating? Will you eat your spouse if you are dissatisfied? Why is it so cruel

Animal courtship is no longer a rare thing. In order to pass on excellent genes, many animals choose males with stronger bodies as their mates.

Therefore, in order to win the favour of females, males often choose duels, and this is also true in snakes.

I believe we have all heard such rumours that if someone sees two snakes entwined together, something bad will happen soon.

It is a bad sign and many people agree with it.

In fact, this is unfounded.

Snakes are usually entangled for mating, or it is a normal phenomenon to compete for the right to mate.

This situation is most common in spring and summer, because this is the estrus period of most snakes, even if you see it.

Don't take it to heart.

Snakes living in the north in China are hibernating.

They will choose to reproduce after the end of hibernation, so as to allow the young snakes to have enough time to develop and ensure that they can survive the first winter.

Because snakes are warm-blooded animals, they are also cold-blooded animals that we often say.

They cannot adjust their body temperature by themselves.

They can only change according to the surrounding environment.

Coupled with their solitary habits, they usually leave their hands after laying eggs.

Can they hatch successfully? All depends on the right time and place.

Of course, not all snakes are like this.

Some snakes have the habit of protecting eggs, such as the king cobra, which usually stays nearby after laying eggs, and will not leave until the cubs break out of the shell.

At this time, if someone It is very dangerous to get close, and it will chase people out of protection, until it drives you out of this area.

King cobras have a high IQ, and they are the only snakes that can build nests.

Before laying eggs, they use their bodies to move into a small nest, lay the eggs inside and cover them with litter.

High hatchability.

During the estrus period, the molted female king cobra will emit a unique smell.

Snake sensitive to smell can smell this smell from afar, and they will rush to complete the reproduction task.

It is worthwhile one thing to mention is that other snakes cannot smell this smell, because snakes also have reproductive isolation, and different kinds of snakes cannot breed, so only the same kind will come.

Sometimes this kind of smell can attract a lot of nearby female king cobras.

If they are the first to arrive, or there are no competitors around, they can usually breed smoothly.

If there are other males nearby, they will fight for mating rights.

Snakes do not use venom when fighting for mating rights.

They also know that doing so is likely to hurt both sides.

They often use more gentle methods to contend with each other through their own strength.

It will keep pressing the other's head with its own head until one is completely overwhelmed and unable to raise its head.

So we can often see two snakes entwined together, constantly suppressing each other's heads.

This is a snake.

The duel between them is gentler than other animals.

The victor will get the right to mate with the female, and will continue to pay attention to the female until it is accepted by the other.

Snakes are different from other animals.

They have two organs.

Usually they only use one of them.

There is no way to say which one is easy to use.

Just like a human writing, it stays parallel or entangled with the female during mating.

The whole process can last for several hours, or even ten hours.

But in order to ensure the quality of offspring, females usually mate with several males.

They store the genes of these different males in their bodies and choose the best one to conceive, so sometimes many snakes can be entangled.

It happened, and it made people feel very uncomfortable.

However, this situation does not occur in the king cobra.

The king cobra is domineering and will never tolerate such things.

Once the male fails to court or finds that the other party is pregnant before mating, he will kill the killer with venom.

The dead female then eats each other.

In the eyes of humans, this behaviour is like unloading the mill to kill the donkey.

It is very cruel, but for snakes, it is only to ensure that their genes can be passed on, and they don't want to wear a ***"green hat".***

Therefore, before mating, the female king cobra will be very careful, carefully looking at the opponent's talisman does not meet the requirements, if you think that the other party is dangerous or not the one you like, she will quickly leave without getting entangled with it, for fear of angering the other party to catch up.

Life we all know that in general snakes, males are smaller and females are a bit bigger.

King Cobra is the opposite.

Males are bigger than females, and their strength and aura will be stronger.

This also gives them a certain degree of strength when fighting.

The advantage is that he can easily subdue females smaller than his own, which makes the other party so cautious.

Because the king cobra has a strong snake-eating sex, many people think that it kills females specifically for predation.

In fact, the king cobra usually does not have the same kind of mutual harm, and it only occurs during mating.

Venomous snakes are not good at using entanglement to control the enemy.

They are usually fatal with a single blow.

King Cobras have a high IQ.

When attacking similar species, they will aim at the opponent's head.

One bite does not give the opponent a chance to fight back.

Certain neurotoxin immunity, but the huge amount of detoxification and the ultimate neurotoxin can kill the opponent within a few minutes, so once the same kind of conflict occurs, it is easy to lose both sides.

However, in order to pass on its genes, it would rather risk its life to kill the female king cobra, which shows that it is not really cruel, but out of animal survival instinct.