The mongoose and cobra are natural born enemies, as anyone who has a passing familiarity with the Rudyard Kipling short story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is surely aware. The scrappy, yet dexterous carnivorous ...

Nature often is witness to 'survival of the fittest' in the animal kingdom; and amongst these, one of the most fascinating rivalries is between the King Cobra, the world’s longest venomous snake, and ...

As long as Kashmir remains an issue between them, India and Pakistan will rage at each other with the furious in tensity of a cobra and a mongoose. Three weeks ago, the United Nations Security Council ...