Why not COBRA,the venomous snake gets effected by its own poison?

Question

Sometimes while grabbing and suffocating its prey Cobra bites itself but its seen that it does not produce any reaction on the nervous system of Cobra itself.This snake is most common in india and nearly 50,000 people/6 months are toxicated by this Snake.If this phenomenon sorts out many such innocents may not loose their precious lives.

Answer 1

my dear friend...

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The question whether all snakes are immune to their own venom is not yet definitely settled. Most snakes certainly are, and it is a remarkable fact that certain harmless species, such as the North American Coronella getula and the Brazilian Rhacidelus brazili, are proof against the venom of the Crotalines which frequent the same districts, and which they are able to overpower and feed upon. The Cribo, Spilotes variabilis, is the enemy of the Fer-de-lance in St. Lucia, and it is said that in their encounters the Cribo is invariably the victor. Repeated experiments have shown our Common Snake, Tropidonotus natrix, not to be affected by the bite of Vipera berus and Vipera aspis, this being due to the presence, in the blood of the harmless snake, of toxic principles secreted by the parotid and labial glands, and analogous to those of the venom of these vipers.

Answer 2

I would guess that the venom does not get into the bloodstream of the snake. The venom only has an effect when the body tries to make energy from it.

Either that or the snake has an immune system which knows how to get rid of it

Answer 3

Most snake venoms are proteins. It is the reaction they cause in another body that makes them toxic. A cobra cannot have a reaction to itself.

Answer 4

I dont know