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Bio-Ken is a research centre, which deals with reptiles,
especially snakes and snake-bite. Located less than 5
minutes drive from the hotels in
Watamu - Kenya, it houses the largest collection of Snakes in East
Africa and is open to the public.
There are about 127 different snake species in Kenya. Of
these only 18 have caused human fatalities and only
another 6 could kill you. Another 10 could cause you a
lot of pain and the remaining 93 or so, are non-venomous
nor dangerous.
Read up
on Bio-Ken's discovery of a massive new cobra - the
Large Brown Spitting Cobra Naja Ashei .
Further details and reports can be found via the
following links:
Reptile Channel,
National Geographic ,
Zootaxa
(Acrobat doc. 792 Kb),
Elapids
page of this site.
National Geographic's Video Footage of the Large Brown
Spitting Cobra
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