Talk:Cobra

Finnish link missing
It appears that there is no link to the finnish page here on Kobra. The finnish page that is equivalent talks about Naja the genus of cobras. While Naja in Finnish has the English link to Cobras, the other waz around is missing here. When I try and add the link it asks me about merging pages to put the link in. As I do not want to merge the English and 20 other languages but only put the link to he Finnish equivalent article AND NOT split the finnish article and write a separate page that will be duplicate content this means the interwiki does not function. The reason is that I want when I send the English page for people to be able to find the Finnish page from it. Can someone fix this so there is a link to the corresponding Finnish page for this English article?

Note prog lang
how come they do not have cobra programming language in wikipedia
 * Maybe you should write an article about it?   &mdash; J I P | Talk 09:11, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus)
I have created a page Rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus) which you may wish to put a link to on this page. I have added the page to Spitting cobra

--199.68.167.72 (talk) 13:24, 30 April 2012 (UTC)--199.68.167.72 (talk) 13:24, 30 April 2012 (UTC)== Egyptian Cobra =/= Spectacled Cobra. ==

This article states that the Egyptian cobra is the same as the Spectacled cobra, which is false. The hookers cobra is the one commonly known as the Spectacled cobra. This needs to be fixed. Rynoah (talk) 04:28, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Isn't the Indian Cobra also a commonly used name for the snake? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.36.137.134 (talk) 01:00, 16 June 2010 (UTC)  so i would say that this is one

Move proposal
This is a very poor article (no taxobox, bold claims with no references to speak of) and the subject is too vague to describe anything more than a subset of elapid genera that all have a similar threat display, but are otherwise quite different. Therefore, I propose that Cobra (disambiguation) be moved here and that this article be deleted. --Jwinius (talk) 12:44, 21 November 2008 (UTC)


 * If the word "cobra" does not define a specific taxon, then it should be a disambiguation page. StevePrutz (talk) 19:27, 25 November 2008 (UTC)


 * It already is a disambiguation page. See set index articles. Cheers, --Jwinius (talk) 22:47, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Brazilian?
Why do we use a Brazilian name for a primarily Indian snake? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.208.21 (talk) 21:23, 5 February 2009 (UTC) "Cobra di capello" is not Portuguese. "De capelo" is the correct wrinting in this language. It may be written in Spanish or Italian. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.34.42.112 (talk) 19:59, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

The first westerners to spot the Naja were Portuguese explorers, which named it "cobra de capelo". "Cobra" is the generic term for snake in Portuguese and "capelo" is the Old Portuguese word for hat, which now refers strictly to the mortarboard cap and the hat worn by Catholic bishops. In fact, although "Naja" is the most common term to refer to these snakes in Brazil, "cobra-capelo" or "cobra de capelo" are still recognized terms and appear in dictionaries. 189.115.185.115 (talk) 21:50, 23 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Portuguese actually has two words for "snake": serpente and cobra, which correspond, more or less reciprocally, to Spanish serpiente/sierpe and culebra. In Portuguese, however, especially in Brazil, serpente has come to be used popularly for large snakes (python, boa and the like) and cobra for smaller ones, but this is not necessarily so. I am adding this to question the information that the English word cobra comes from an abbreviation of cobra de capelo and not from cobra itself. jggouvea (talk) 00:51, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Correct, please
"de capello" is not Portuguese. It's "de capelo" with a single l —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.58.124.34 (talk) 01:23, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm correcting this now, because that part contains a lot of mistakes:

i wunt tacos —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.24.249.135 (talk) 19:35, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * "cobra de capelo" is not Italian at all
 * "cobra di capello" literally means "cobra of a hair" in Italian, but that's absolutely NOT an expression used in Italy
 * the literal Italian translation of "snake with hood" is "serpente col mantello".Devil Master (talk) 18:43, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Cobrar is a Spanish verb meaning to charge
cobra is a conjugation of the verb meaning he/she/it charges. I do not know of any relationship with the namaing of this snake, so I post this as more of a question. 71.114.195.58 (talk) 16:15, 30 September 2009 (UTC)


 * The same in Portuguese (though here in Brazil the word also means to "demand (payment of a debt or fulfilment of a promise"), but this is merely a case of homophony since no one ever demanded payment using a cobra to scare the debtor... Indeed there are many such cases of homophony in either language (Pt and Es), especially involving verb inflection. Gee, each verb has up to 73 different forms, making it easy for such coincidences, like


 * Como ("I eat") and como ("how")
 * acerto ("I hit") and acerto ("deal")
 * dado ("given") and dado ("dice")

One must be keen to read words in their context to understand the text. jggouvea (talk) 00:59, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

the king cobra —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.82.128.88 (talk) 17:27, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * "Cobra" is one of two Portuguese words for snake, derived from the Latin. It means only that: "snake", nothing more nor less.  KDS4444 (talk) 13:15, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Eating habits

 * 1) What do they feed on?
 * 2) How often and how much do they eat at a time?
 * 3) Are they carnivores or herbivores?

Thanks in advance for the information

Naive
i love Dogs — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.182.65.32 (talk) 04:02, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 59.182.65.32, note that this talk page is for improving the article only. Apparently in India, you are very naive if you think snakes eat plants. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.136.176.213 (talk) 12:08, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Cobras and lists. Is there a herpetologist in the house?
The various WP articles dealing with cobras not only vary greatly in quality, but in construction and in their interrelationships. As a group they need drastic revision. This article might be a good place to start; it violates several principles and does not adhere to the functional nature appropriate to list-class articles. Among other articles for example, the one for Cape cobra, though in other ways superior, contains too much information that belongs in the article Naja, not specifically N. nivea. As I am NOT a herpetologist, I prefer not to undertake a project to correct the situation, so before I do commit myself, is anyone better qualified interested? JonRichfield (talk) 14:22, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh, ! What this article really needs is a good team of people to work it into ARTICLE-of-the-DAY quality!!!  I did a total overhaul here a couple of months ago and walked away from it still feeling it was sub par...  but the topic is a highly relevant one, and has a lot of public appeal (it consistently gets over 1,000 views a day).  The fact that it still kinda reads like a grade school book report on the matter remains unfortunate and is disappointing.  Re: you not being a herpetologist: very few Wikipedia editors are "experts" in the fields they (we) write about, of course.  We piece together what we can find and we make decent articles out of what the real experts have discovered and published.  The likelihood that a real herpetologist will come along anytime soon and finally fix this article is probably too much to hope for.  The fact is, you and I could do everything that this article needs to have done to it.  If we could invest the time and the energy.  Which, I know far too well, is not always easy to come by.  I am as guilty as the next person of beginning with some good intentions and then getting exhausted by the volunteer effort of it all and walking away before it is finished.  I have never found the drive and focus to carry an article through to Article of the Day status.  Ever.  But I will admit that I have sometimes wanted to.  How about you??  I wouldn't bother to attack the subject alone, but maybe, with some company....?  :-)  Think about it, sir.  An Article of the Day awaits!  And I would consider you good company (I am reflecting on our interaction at Talk:Whorl (botany) in particular from (gasp!) three years ago, though no obligations!!!  you are free to walk away and I will feel no insult!).   KDS4444 (talk) 13:32, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Phew, many thanks for the compliment. Things are a bit pressured at the moment (unlike when maybe?) so we might get off to an uneven start. If you can face that, then OK. If at any point I strike you as a bit scarce, DO feel welcome to rattle my cage and I promise not to bite you. I might be a couple of days roughing out what I think is needed, but if I am not back by the weekend, shout at me. Cheers, JonRichfield (talk) 19:44, 27 September 2016 (UTC) OK, I am starting, slightly belatedly. I'll start roughing it out then put it into my user space before zapping the original. With any luck I'll have the beginnings ready to give you an address to inspect. I think there is no reason you shouldn't think of topics and sources in the mean time. Anon and anon... JonRichfield (talk) 15:58, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
 * this sounds fantastic! Let's move the conversation to a user talk page and take it from there, yes?  I nominate mine!  Will ping you at that location as well.  KDS4444 (talk) 23:12, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

I want to move this to Cobra (disambiguation)
This article really shouldn't exist, we should move the relevant list under a new subsection called "snakes" under Science and Technology in the Cobra (disambiguation) page, and forward "Cobra" to Naja. Mstearnsa (talk) 20:23, 23 October 2018 (UTC)Mstearnsa
 * Oppose. We need to put in the time and effort to develop this article into a proper WP:BROADCONCEPT article. Rreagan007 (talk) 18:31, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

extend hatnote?
WikiNav for Cobra indicates that in October '23, there were 1.31k identified clickstreams towards the disambiguation hatnote. WikiNav for Cobra (disambiguation) in turn shows that most of this could be about the lookups of the COBRA acronym but lowercase, and in turn two topics about recent British politics. The uppercase redirect already goes there, so there's not much to do, but should we add some of these topics to the hatnote to short-circuit them, at least for a while? The |COBRA|COBRA_(British_TV_series)|Cabinet_Office_Briefing_Rooms page views for these big topics indicate these spikes to be transient, but they are pretty noticable still. --Joy (talk) 14:09, 3 January 2024 (UTC)