This book covers curricular information?life cycle, appearance, habitat?about the king cobra. Each chapter discusses a different aspect of the king cobra's life, and then compares the snake to a similar reptile and later to a different reptile. This title includes helpful sidebars that support the main text. As a part of the Comparing Animal Traits series, its overall goal is to show what makes this animal a reptile, and how reptiles are alike and different from one another. Readers will become familiar with reptile similarities and differences, learning to compare and contrast as well as grasping how different factors (animal traits and environment, for instance) are related. Full-Color Photographs, Further Reading, Glossary, Index, Photo Captions, Sidebars, Table of Contents, Websites.