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In Habitat Tansania Africa    The Red Spitting Cobra (Naja pallida ) is a relatively small cobra that is quite slender in body proportions. They have a small head (some specimens can have big heads with huge swollen venom glands clearly seen at the side of the head) with large eyes, with a round pupil. The tail is long and the body is cylindrical of shape. The colour of this cobra can be variable depending on the origin of the snake. The specimens from southern Kenya and northern Tanzania have a orange red colour, with a broad steel blue or black throat band. In some specimens we also see two or tree throat bands but this is not common for specimens from East Africa . The ventral side is also reddish from colour with sometimes a crèmes white throat. Specimens from other areas can be yellow, pinkish, pink-grey, pale red or steel grey which can be mistaken for dark green, most of them will have the throat band, but this throat band will fade or even sometimes disappear ...