{"id":46495,"date":"2019-01-07T18:08:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T17:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/fight-of-ichneumon-and-cobra\/"},"modified":"2021-09-28T17:34:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T15:34:31","slug":"fight-of-ichneumon-and-cobra","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/fight-of-ichneumon-and-cobra\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight of ichneumon and cobra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claudius Aelianus presents the struggle of ichneumon (Egyptian mongoose, also called the pharaoh&#8217;s rat) with a cobra. Ichneumon does not move to attack the enemy without caution and rashly. Just as a man can defend himself in full gear, the ichneumon is first rolled in the mud until it is covered with a hard shell, which serves him as a safe and tight protection. If the mud is missing, it is washed with water and the whole wet one dips deep into the sand &#8211; only then it starts to fight.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When it finds iself in trouble, thereis another strategy. The tip of the nose, sensitive and exposed to the cobra&#8217;s bite, protects in the way it has tried: it bends the tail forward and covers the nose, separating it from the attack of the cobra. If the cobra manages to reach him, the animal falls prey to it; if not, cobra sticks its teeth into a layer of mud, because the ichneumon sneaks in and suddenly throws itmself at the enemy, grabs it by the throat and suffocates. The one who hits the first wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":95690,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-46495","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/46495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/46495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=46495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}