A teacher with 20 years of experience in raising snakes told me: Lock up the five-step snake and the cobra together, and in less than 1 minute, the five-step snake can immediately bite the cobra to death. Cobras are just famous, and they can't squeeze into the top 5 of the poisonous snake list in terms of toxicity.
Why can't Cobra become the king of a hundred snakes?
1. In terms of body shape, it is decent in the snake world
The size of the cobra is between 1.2 meters ~ 2.5 meters. The longest cobra is only 2.5 meters, and it is extremely rare, and the conventional cobra is within 2 meters in length.
The body length of more than one meter is not too prominent for snakes, and there are many large snakes with a body length of more than 2.5 meters in the snake world, and there are also giant snakes that weigh several times larger than cobras.
Take the common cauliflower snakes in the countryside as an example, their body length can easily reach 2.0 ~ 2.6 meters, the weight is about 15 pounds, and the size is large, the speed of movement is fast, the temper is still very irritable, if hungry, the six relatives do not recognize, the residue of the same kind, although it is a non-poisonous snake but not inferior to the cobra.
Compared with foreign poisonous snakes, cobras are even more small. In 2018, Indonesia caught a 14.85-meter-long reticulated python weighing 1,000 pounds, with scales as big as a human fist.
Cobras are placed in front of such large snakes and are difficult to notice. If the two snakes are locked together, the cobra may not live more than 5 seconds, after all, it is a matter that the reticulated python can be crushed to death by turning over, and no matter how poisonous the cobra's venom is, it cannot bite through their thick bodies. #头条创作挑战赛 #
Kill cobras in seconds, the "king of a hundred snakes" in the true sense.
In the eyes of the vast majority of people, the poisonous snake is a very murderous cold-blooded animal, which is extremely harmful to humans, especially the distant relative of the cobra, the "king cobra", likes to actively provoke and attack humans.
However, there is a snake in the world, not only gentle personality, but also see humans are quickly afraid to escape, even if they are caught, they will not be provoked easily, don't look at this snake "bag", in fact, its strength is above all snakes, is the world's most poisonous snake, poisonous second-kill cobra, it is the famous inland Taipan snake.
Inland Taipan snake is also called fine scale Taipan snake, also known as "desert snake", mainly living in the arid areas of central and western Australia, its body length is slightly smaller than ordinary taipan snake, the longest adult snake is only about 2 meters, don't look at the body "short", its lethality rate is very high.
There was a professional snake documentary filmmaker abroad who was accidentally bitten when filming inland Taipan snakes in the wild, and in just 2 minutes, the photographer felt nausea, dizziness and other poisoning sensations, and he immediately tied them with bandages and went to a nearby hospital for help.
After 60 minutes, the photographer began to have symptoms of vomiting, blurred vision and blurred speech, and 2 hours later, the hospital injected the photographer with a bottle of 12,000 units of polyvalent antivenom, and after the injection, the photographer was rushed to another hospital with perfect medical technology for further treatment.
5.5 hours later, the photographer again had severe upper eyelid drooping and needed mechanical oxygen, and the hospital injected him with two bottles of 12,000 units of Taipan snake antivenom. After 10 hours, the doctor removed the oxygen tube from the photographer's face and found that his symptoms were more serious, although the oxygen tube had been open for 48 hours, but the photographer was still unresponsive, photophobia in the right eye, nausea and other symptoms.
Including prehistoric snakes, the strongest snake is undoubtedly the titan python, which can reach a length of 14 meters and weigh up to 1 ton, but it has long been extinct. Among the extant snakes, the largest snake is somewhat controversial because the body size data of the reticulated python and the Amazon forest beetle are relatively close, and rumors about them can be found on the Internet.
Especially the reticulated python, since Indonesia produced a reticulated python called "osmanthus", the largest snake is none other than it, because it is rumored to be 14.85 meters long, longer than the titan python. However, then the osmanthus was debunked, and after field measurements, the osmanthus was actually only about 6.5 meters and weighed about 90 kilograms.
From the current scientific data, the largest known reticulated python and the Amazon forest cockroach are both 7.5 meters long, but there is a slight difference in the weight of the two snakes, of which the Amazon forest python recorded a weight of 150 kg, while the reticulated python recorded a weight of 136 kg.
In the case of equal body length, the weight advantage will often prevail, so the "king of snakes" in the existing pythons and cockroaches is the Amazon forest cockroach.
Belcher Sea Serpent (The World's Most Venomous King)
Belcher sea snakes are known as the most poisonous snakes on earth, they belong to a class of sea snakes, living in Australian waters, usually fishing for a living, adult Belcher sea snakes up to 3 meters long, and extremely toxic, more than 200 times that of king cobras.
In addition, the snake venom of the Belcher sea snake is mainly based on neurotoxins and muscle toxins, and it is said that only 0.0013 mg of venom can be put into a gorilla, which is unimaginable and deserves to be the "king of poisonous snakes".
However, compared with the king cobra, the Belcher sea snake has a gentle temperament, never takes the initiative to attack humans, and the amount of venom secreted at one time is not too much, so it is by no means an opponent of the king cobra.
