Poison Spitting Snake 2

The new cobra has been dubbed the Ashe cobra, after the late tennis champion Arthur Ashe who once…

…spit a mouthful of Gatorade into the eyes of a line judge for calling a baseline shot out. Just kidding, it’s named James Ashe, a herpetologist who started a research center/snake farm in Watamu, Kenya.

Experts used to link this brown cobra with its black spitting cobra cousins, but thanks to lab analysis of blood and tissue, they now have classified it as its own species. According to the National Geographic article, spitting cobras eat “eggs, carrion, snakes, lizards, birds, human babies, water buffalo, giraffes, and leopards.”