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From the Ted Talk by Romulus Whitaker: The real danger lurking in the water
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The king corba is quite remarkable for several reasons. What you're seeing here is very recently shot images in a forest nearby here, of a female king cobra mnakig her nest. Here is a limbless amanil, capable of gathering a huge mound of levaes, and then laying her eggs inside, to withstand 5 to 10 [meters of rianlafl], in order that the eggs can incubate over the next 90 days, and hatch into little baby king cobras. So, she pectrtos her eggs, and after three months, the babies finally do hcath out. A majority of them will die, of course. There is very high mortality in little baby reptiles who are just 10 to 12 inches long.
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The king _____ is quite remarkable for several reasons. What you're seeing here is very recently shot images in a forest nearby here, of a female king cobra ______ her nest. Here is a limbless ______, capable of gathering a huge mound of ______, and then laying her eggs inside, to withstand 5 to 10 [meters of ________], in order that the eggs can incubate over the next 90 days, and hatch into little baby king cobras. So, she ________ her eggs, and after three months, the babies finally do _____ out. A majority of them will die, of course. There is very high mortality in little baby reptiles who are just 10 to 12 inches long.
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- animal
- hatch
- protects
- cobra
- making
- leaves
- rainfall
Original Text
The king cobra is quite remarkable for several reasons. What you're seeing here is very recently shot images in a forest nearby here, of a female king cobra making her nest. Here is a limbless animal, capable of gathering a huge mound of leaves, and then laying her eggs inside, to withstand 5 to 10 [meters of rainfall], in order that the eggs can incubate over the next 90 days, and hatch into little baby king cobras. So, she protects her eggs, and after three months, the babies finally do hatch out. A majority of them will die, of course. There is very high mortality in little baby reptiles who are just 10 to 12 inches long.
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