Figure 1. (A) Natural distribution of King Cobra in Southeast Asia, southern China, north and north-eastern India, and the Western Ghat of India. (B) Adult King Cobra, Malaysia, with pale olive coloration (photo by Chia How Lee, reprinted with permission). (C) Adult King Cobra, likely Western Ghats of India, in glossy black color with cross-bars (photo by Michael Allen Smith from Seattle, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons). (D) Adult King Cobra, Odisha State, eastern India, with brownish bronze coloration and crossbars (photo by Mark O'Shea, https://www.markoshea.info/oba3-1_india01.php, reprinted with permission). (E) Juvenile King Cobra (Malaysia) in growth transition, with crossbars which will disappear into adulthood (photo by Chia How Lee, reprinted with permission). (F) Schematic representation of the phylogenetics of King Cobra in relation to extant elapids (tree simplified from Figueroa et al. [19]).