A Komodo dragon would win a fight against a king cobra. Both creatures are ambush predators, but the king cobra must rely on its venom to kill its enemy before it is attacked and killed.
Description. What would happen if a Komodo Dragon and a King Cobra met? This nonfiction reader compares and contrasts these two ferocious reptiles and is packed with photos, charts and illustrations. This book is packed with photos, charts, illustrations, and amazing facts.
A tiger would win a fight against a Komodo dragon. An ambush by the tiger would instantly end a fight against a Komodo dragon, and the tiger would just as easily win a battle without the element of surprise.
Yet, the reticulated python - the world's longest and heaviest snake - remained constricted around the king cobra and killed the cobra while too being dead.
An anaconda would win a fight against a king cobra. This outcome assumes that both of these creatures met in an open area that doesn't allow an ambush to happen. Otherwise, the anaconda might just snatch the water-loving king cobra into the water and make for a much less interesting fight.
"While the mamba put up a fight, continually striking at the cobra, the cobra won the battle with its superior size and strength, eventually eating the mamba."
The researchers found adaptations in Komodo dragon genes involved in coagulation that make these lizards immune from the venom anti-coagulant, protecting them from bleeding to death when attacked by another of their own species.
What predator would even try to attack a cobra? The snake's biggest enemy is the mongoose, which is quick enough to dart in and bite the back of the cobra's neck before the snake can defend itself.
A dung beetle is not only the world's strongest insect but also the strongest animal on the planet compared to body weight. They can pull 1,141 times their own body weight. This is the equivalent of an average person pulling six double-decker buses full of people.
An adult anaconda would win a fight against a Komodo dragon. The Komodo dragon is a highly capable fighter, but it would not be able to deal fatal damage to the anaconda before it was grabbed and crushed. Anacondas can successfully attack crocodiles, creatures that can kill faster than a Komodo dragon.
A silverback gorilla is much too powerful for a Komodo dragon to fend off. A gorilla would beat a Komodo dragon in a fight. Many people believe that Komodo dragons are venomous. While that is true in a sense, they don't have a venom that will paralyze and knock out their prey.
The cobra will either lose the fight outright or have a pyrrhic victory, dying to deliver a fatal bite on the lizard. Either way, the snake will be in the lizard's belly by the time the latter dies from venom. Unless the snake landed a bite to a vital area and quickly killed the lizard, it will lose.
Crocodiles are larger, stronger, and faster than Komodo dragons. Crocodiles are also more common throughout the world, living in many countries.
King Cobras Fear the Mongoose
The mongoose preys on the king cobra, and they do so very successfully. Mongooses are very tough customers for cobras because they have a high level of agility.
A lion would win a fight against a Komodo dragon. Lions are larger and heavier and have something that the Komodo dragon lacks: the ability to kill their enemy with a single blow.
An alligator would beat a Komodo dragon in a fight. The crushing power of an alligator's bite is too much for the smaller, lighter Komodo dragon to compete against. The alligator would probably wait for a Komodo dragon to come to the water's edge before striking.
So far scientists fully understand venom resistance in only four mammals - mongooses, honey badgers, hedgehogs and pigs - as well as several snakes. The golden poison frog is one of the most toxic animals on Earth, deadly to almost all animals except one.
The inland or western taipan, Oxyuranus microlepidotus, is the most venomous snake in the world, according to Britannica. Native to Australia, this snake has the deadliest venom based on median lethal dose, or LD50, tests on mice.
The taipan's venom is stronger, but the cobra's body is a lot bigger. If both snakes got bitten, they're both going to die. From that point, it's just a matter of which one expires quicker. With such a large body, the king cobra could last longer than the much smaller taipan.
Black mambas are larger, faster, very aggressive, and capable of attacking from a distance. If an inland taipan and a black mamba fought, the latter would be most likely to win, though there's a chance they would both end up killing each other with venom.