red spitting cobra
naja pallida latin

Red spitting cobras are terrestrial, fast and alert snakes.

The red spitting cobra is oviparous.

Unlike some other African cobras (for example the Red spitting cobra), this species does not spit venom.

C. najae - Red spitting cobra (Naja pallida)

The red spitting cobra (Naja pallida), is a species of spitting cobra native to Africa.

The red spitting cobra is mainly found in East Africa, including Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia, southern Egypt, northern and eastern Ethiopia, and northern Tanzania and northern Sudan.

In September 2011, a snake keeper from the Eastern Cape in South Africa died shortly after a red spitting cobra sprayed venom into his face while he and a friend were photographing the snake.

In the course of hunting these lions, Patterson encounters a red spitting cobra, a rhinoceros, a hippopotamus, a pack of wild dogs, a wildebeest that faked dying, and a herd of zebra, of which he captured six.

Venom from this species is very similar in composition to that of other spitting cobras, including the black-necked spitting cobra (N. nigricollis) and the red spitting cobra (N. pallida), which are both found in the same areas.

The red spitting cobra is closely related and forms a sister taxon with the Nubian spitting cobra (Naja nubiae) of northeastern Africa, which was originally considered a northern population of N. m. pallida before being recognized as a distinct species in 2003.

C. najae - Red spitting cobra (Naja pallida)

The red spitting cobra (Naja pallida), is a species of spitting cobra native to Africa.