{"id":879358,"date":"2026-10-12T05:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T05:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/879358\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T05:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T05:50:11","slug":"secretary-bird-kicks-a-cobras-head-with-force-five-times-its-body-weight-5-birds-that-hunt-down-venomous-snakes-for-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/879358\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary bird kicks a cobra&#8217;s head with force five times its body weight: 5 birds that hunt down venomous snakes for lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snakes are those scary, venomous slitherers that even seeing one sends chills down our spine, and we would hardly want to encounter one of these reptiles.<\/p>\n<p>But nature is full of surprises. While we want to keep a safe distance from serpents, some birds relish them as food.<\/p>\n<p>Over thousands of years, some birds have developed tools, like especially modified talons and flying abilities, that help them make snakes their lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some birds that hunt venomous snakes for lunch:Photos via Canva<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snakes are those scary, venomous slitherers that even seeing one sends chills down our spine, and we would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[369668,369669,369671,79,369670,17536,201],"class_list":["post-879358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-birds-that-eat-snakes","tag-birds-that-eat-venomous-snakes","tag-cobra-eating-bird","tag-science","tag-venomous-snake-eater","tag-venomous-snakes","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}