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giant panda vs king cobra

giant panda vs king cobra
Evenly matched on the numbers
Measured comparison — not a prediction

A bear that has become a bamboo specialist, eating 12-38 kg of it a day. The longest venomous snake, delivering enough neurotoxin in one bite to kill an elephant. The measurements below split evenly, which is rarer than it sounds.

The measurements

giant panda king cobra
Mass 70–125 kg 4–12.7 kg
Length 1.2–1.9 m 3–5.85 m
Height 0.6–0.9 m —
Lifespan 15–30 yr 17–22 yr

Where each one leads

  • Mass: giant panda is 17× heavier.
  • Length: king cobra is 2.5× longer.
  • Lifespan: near enough identical.

What this does and does not tell you

These are measured averages with real ranges behind them, and every figure links to its own page. What they cannot do is settle an encounter. Outcomes between animals turn on circumstance — who initiates, whether either is hungry, defending young, injured or cornered, and what the terrain favours. Size and bite force are not decisive on their own, and most of these pairs never meet in the wild in any case, because their ranges do not overlap.

Every figure here is an average with a substantial spread. Individual animals vary enormously — a large individual of the smaller species routinely exceeds a small individual of the larger one.

Common questions

Is a giant panda bigger than a king cobra?
giant panda is heavier — 70–125 kg against 4–12.7 kg.
Who would win, a giant panda or a king cobra?
That is not something measurements can settle. The comparison above shows which animal leads on each measure, but an actual encounter depends on circumstance, motivation, health and terrain — and most pairs like this never meet in the wild.

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Sources

  1. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History — Smithsonian Institution

How these figures are compiled and checked