Stock image: a python swallowing a deer whole. Snakes like the Indian Cobra can also extend their jaws in this manner. iStock / Getty Images Plus Snakes slowly swallow large prey like this huge ...

King Cobra and Rock Python are apex predators in Asia. King Cobra uses venom, while Rock Python constricts prey. Cobra is fast and intelligent. Python relies on brute strength. A fight depends on ...

The cobra has a lethal bite because of its poison while the python, which has no poison, kills by constricting its enemy in a paralysing grip. Both snakes wrap their bodies around each other.

Indian pythons (Python molurus) are larger than native Florida snakes and typically reach 10 feet in length and weigh nearly 30 pounds.