{"id":211098,"date":"2026-02-25T04:37:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=211098"},"modified":"2026-02-25T04:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:37:58","slug":"snakes-on-a-train-king-cobras-are-hitching-rides-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=211098","title":{"rendered":"Snakes on a train: King cobras are hitching rides in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On India\u2019s railways, stowaways are not limited to ticketless passengers. Some arrive without limbs, luggage or much interest in timetables. A paper recently published in Biotropica suggests that king cobras (Ophiophagus kaalinga) may occasionally hitch a ride on trains in western India, turning railways into unexpected dispersal routes&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/short-article\/2026\/02\/snakes-on-a-train-king-cobras-are-hitching-rides-in-india\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On India\u2019s railways, stowaways are not limited to ticketless passengers. Some arrive without limbs, luggage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211098-snakes-on-a-train-king-cobras-are-hitching-rides-in-india.jpg",768,512,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211098-snakes-on-a-train-king-cobras-are-hitching-rides-in-india-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211098-snakes-on-a-train-king-cobras-are-hitching-rides-in-india-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211098-snakes-on-a-train-king-cobras-are-hitching-rides-in-india.jpg",640,427,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211098-snakes-on-a-train-king-cobras-are-hitching-rides-in-india.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211098-snakes-on-a-train-king-cobras-are-hitching-rides-in-india.jpg",768,512,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211098-snakes-on-a-train-king-cobras-are-hitching-rides-in-india.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211098-snakes-on-a-train-king-cobras-are-hitching-rides-in-india.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211098-snakes-on-a-train-king-cobras-are-hitching-rides-in-india.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211098-snakes-on-a-train-king-cobras-are-hitching-rides-in-india-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>","tag_info":"Saudi Arabia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/211099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}