COBRA SNAKE

The cobra or that also was known by the name of the cobra to be a kind of venomous snake from the Elapidae ethnic group. Acknowledged as the cobra (Jw., ula irus) because this snake could maintain and flattened his neck if felt was disturbed by his enemy. The neck that memipih and buckled that was similar the form of the spoon or irus (the vegetables spoon). The cobra term was in Indonesian taken from English, cobra, that actually also was the loan from the Portugis language. In the last language, cobra was the public's term for the snake, that was unloaded from the Latin language colobra (coluber, colubra), that also meant the snake. When the Portugis seamen in the 16th age arrived in Africa and South Asia, they named the cobra that was found by them there with the term cobra-capelo, the snake bertudung. From this name developing terms that were similar in Spanish, France, England et cetera the European language. The cobra usually berhabitat the tropical area and the desert in Asia and Africa.