Cobras are among the most cobras, which chose to eat other venomous and dangerous snakes members of their own species for in the world, and studies have around four per cent of their shown that they aren’t even safe meals. As to why cobras choose to from each other. Researchers at eat each other, the answer might the University of the Western Cape depend on their sex. In each of the in South Africa have discovered cases of cannibalism that the that between 13 and 43 per cent of researchers documented, both all prey species in diets of surveyed the devourer and the devouree cobras were other snakes, were male. It’s been suggested including their own species. that for cobras, cannibalism is a The most cannibalistic of the possible method of removing snakes they surveyed were Cape sexual competition.
An Indian cobra feasting on another Indian cobra