{"id":111115,"date":"2026-09-26T13:02:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T07:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=111115"},"modified":"2026-09-26T15:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T10:09:37","slug":"caspian-cobra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/caspian-cobra\/","title":{"rendered":"Caspian Cobra"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Caspian Cobra Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers have documented the first confirmed snakebite envenomation and subsequent human deaths in India caused by the venomous Caspian cobra (Naja oxiana).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Caspian Cobra<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the most <\/span><b>venomous cobra in the world.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a species of venomous snake in the <\/span><b>family Elapidae.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Other names:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is also called the <\/span><b>Central Asian cobra, ladle snake, Oxus cobra<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or Russian cobra.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It thrives in <\/span><b>arid and semi-arid regions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including <\/span><b>rocky hillsides and scrublands.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is <\/span><b>native to Central Asia.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is found in parts of <\/span><b>Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, the Fergana<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Valley, north and east Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, the northern half of Pakistan from the Kashmir region east to the state of Himachal Pradesh in India, and in southwestern Tajikistan.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Features<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is slightly <\/span><b>shorter than the Indian cobra<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its body is slender, uniformly thick from head to midbody, and ends with a medium-length tail.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has <\/span><b>long cervical ribs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> capable of expansion to form a hood. It has <\/span><b>no hood marking<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, just a plain colour instead.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When threatened, it will spread its hood to appear larger and more intimidating.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its coloration can <\/span><b>vary from light brown to dark brown<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or even black, sometimes with a faint banding pattern.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Behavior: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These snakes are <\/span><b>good climbers and able swimmers.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Diet:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> These <\/span><b>are carnivores<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and prey on small mammals, amphibians, and birds.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Hibernation:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They <\/span><b>hibernate <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from late <\/span><b>September or late October to late March-April.<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Conservation Status<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>IUCN Red List:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Near Threatened<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/himachal-pradesh\/researchers-document-first-human-deaths-by-caspian-cobra-in-india\/article71508064.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caspian Cobra, also called the Central Asian cobra, ladle snake, Oxus cobra, or Russian cobra, is a species of venomous snake in the family Elapidae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":111142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8473,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-111115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-caspian-cobra","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111115"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126370,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111115\/revisions\/126370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}