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It can kill a full grown elephant': Australia's biggest venomous snake, a four-meter long king cobra, delivers enough venom to fill a shot glass

> Raja, the ruler cobra, has conveyed just about 500 milligrams of fatal poison

> Its venom will be conveyed between investigate initiates crosswise over Australia

> He's about as thick as my legs,' veteran handler Billy Collett said 

> The snake, which is at Gosford's Australian Reptile Park, weighs 8kg 

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From creepy crawlies to sharks to snakes, Australia is home to a portion of the world's most unsafe, yet sensational animals.

Take, for example, the ruler cobra—one of the world's most venomous snakes—which can grow up to 18 feet long. Right now, the biggest recorded ruler cobra in all of Australia is a 13.45-foot-long snake named Raja who lives at The Australian Reptile Park in New South Wales.

The 13-year-old snake, who measures more than 17 pounds, has really become over the previous year, which is something worth being thankful for, clarified Dan Rumsey, the head of Reptiles and Venom at The Australian Reptile Park. "Measuring Raja is fundamental, as it's the main pointer of his general wellbeing," he told petMD.

While a lord cobra like Raja isn't the most venomous on the planet, his nibble is nothing to mess around with. "A solitary chomp is sufficient to murder a few people, or even an elephant," Rumsey focused. Amid a current draining session, "we evaluated that the venom yield was somewhere close to 400 to 450 milligrams," Rumsey said. "To place this in context, a tiger wind here in Australia (the fourth most dangerous snake on the planet) would just put out around 45 to 50 milligrams of venom."

That is the reason the recreation center staff utilizes "extraordinary alert" when dealing with and looking after Raja. "Taking care of a snake of this peril level takes numerous times of involvement of taking care of venomous snakes," Rumsey said. "We keep contact to an outright least and just handle Raja when completely important. Working with any types of cobra is tied in with having the capacity to peruse the snake's non-verbal communication and anticipating its best course of action—that is the means by which the attendants know precisely what they have to do next."

As much alert as there is around Raja, he has ended up being a significant piece of research, and in addition the Australian scene. "He has sired two grasps of solid lord cobra babies, who are currently living all through Australia," Rumsey noted. "Through this rearing project, we could see the stunning lord cobra mating custom and watch Raja turn into the 'Huge Daddy' of cobras here in Australia."