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TED Talks Science and Medicine

A king cobra bite -- and a scientific discovery | Gowri Shankar

5 min • 17 december 2021

A king cobra has enough venom to kill 10 people in a single bite. Recounting his near-death experience after being bitten by one of these majestic yet deadly snakes, conservationist and TED Fellow Gowri Shankar shares the epiphany he had when the antivenom failed: there's more than one unique species of king cobra.

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