How a snake named Hannibal led to a discovery about cobra cannibalism

Scientists working in the Kalahari Desert spotted this cape cobra, which they later named Hannibal, eating a smaller cape cobra. The find set off a search for how common the practice of cobra cannibalism really is.
B. Maritz
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