A light brown or cream belly with partial black stripes.

Brown or black and white horizontal stripes down its back.

This cobra has a wide snout, round eyes, and a bulge on each side of its head where venom is kept. The size of this cobra ranges from 3.9 feet to 4.9 feet or longer. Their color deepens as they grow older and get larger in size. Juvenile zebra spitting cobras have lighter brown or black and white stripes. Its belly is light brown or cream with partial stripes. This snake has a black or brown head along with a black throat. It has black or brown and white horizontal stripes or cross bars down the length of its back. The name of this snake says a lot about its appearance. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species reports this snake’s population as widespread and stable. Its subspecies is Naja nigricincta woodi or the black spitting cobra. This snake is in the Elapidae family and class Reptilia.

See all of our entertaining and insightful animal articles. How Raleigh Officials Caught a Venomous Spitting Cobra that can Spit Venom 9 feet.This snake inhabits a rocky, shrubland or savanna habitat. It’s found in the central part of Namibia and in Angola as well as in South Africa in the Western and Northern cape provinces. The zebra spitting cobra is native to Africa. This snake is a common sight crossing roads at night.It stores its venom in big pouches on the sides of its head.It can spit its venom from the ground or while it’s standing up with its hood spread.It has a diet of rodents, small birds, fish, and frogs. This reptile grows to a size of 3.9 to 4.9 feet or more and has a lifespan of as long as 12 years.

The zebra spitting cobra has strong venom that can cause serious eye damage or even blindness. Its name refers to the pattern of brown or black and white stripes running the length of its body. The western barred spitting cobra is more familiarly known as the zebra spitting cobra.

A zebra spitting cobra can spit its venom a distance of over nine feet.

Zebra cobra snake