What makes these cobras kings is not just their size, or their deadliness — after all, they don’t eat humans or elephants — it is that they eat other snakes.

然而眼镜王蛇，之所以叫“王蛇”，并不是因为他的体型和致命性——实际上，他们并不吃人或者大象——而是因为他们吃别的蛇。