There is such a venomous snake in Africa, it suddenly became popular all over the Internet with its cute crawling video, and the momentum has gradually overshadowed the black Bahman snake, which is the world's fattest poisonous snake "Gabon Sizzle Viper". Along with the sudden explosion, it also led to more and more people began to have various suspicions about its strength, some people felt that this guy was fat, slow to move, looked harmless to humans and animals, and did not pose a threat to humans, and even had the urge to eat it. Others think that the Gabonese viper is big, the strength and virulence must be very strong, maybe the king cobra will avoid its sharp edge when it sees it, so it can be said that it is difficult to meet the opponent in the snake, so what is the real strength of the Gabonese viper? And is it strong enough to compete with the King Cobra?
Today we will get to know this so-called world's fattest venomous snake, Gabon sizzle viper is a large venomous snake in the viper family, the genus Sizzle Viper, for us Sizzle Viper genus may be a strange species, because they are mainly distributed in Africa, in other areas do not exist so little is little known. There are four species of venomous snakes in this genus, namely the Gabon sizzle viper, the drum-bellied viper, the rhinoceros viper and the rhinoceros sizzler, which have the uniform characteristics of being fat and short, of which the Gabonese sizzling viper is the most bloated. The average length of the Gabon viper is only 1.2-1.5 meters, the largest is about 2 meters, but the figure is very thick and can grow to the same as human thighs, the heaviest can reach 15 kilograms, some people may think that this weight does not sound like anything, but for snakes, this weight has been fat outrageous.
In fact, people have a great misunderstanding of the weight of snakes, we often hear people say that they have seen dozens of pounds or even hundreds of pounds of king cobras, in fact, the adult king cobra with a body size of more than 3 meters, the average weight is only 6 kg, about 5 meters can grow to 15 kg, and the Gabonese viper can reach this weight with a body length of 2 meters, which is completely worthy of the world's fattest poisonous snake. Because of its fat body, the strength of the Gabonese viper is indeed very strong, when hunting, it will shrink the front half of the body into an S shape, and then it can push the entire body forward a short distance through the power of the back half of the body, complete an unexpected attack, and then bite the prey and do not let go, even the juvenile wild boar, roe deer, large lizards, etc. can not break free in its mouth, can only slowly poison the ability to resist.
The type of venom of the Gabonese viper, like most vipers, is also based on blood circulation toxins, which can cause patients to bleed non-stop, wound puffiness, blackening, blisters, ulceration and necrosis after injury, and the damage to human body functions is particularly huge, but the fatality rate and the number of injuries are not too high, which is mainly related to its toxicity and range of activities. The toxicity test of Gabonese viper is: intraperitoneal injection ld50 = 1.9mg / Kg, the toxicity intensity is more general, only slightly better than China's bamboo leaf green, but we can not underestimate it, its detoxification can be more than bamboo leaf green. The Gabonese viper has one of the highest detoxification amounts in the world,It discharges up to 2,400 mg of venom at a time, with an average detoxification of more than 600 mg, dozens of times that of bamboo leaf green, and its poisonous fangs are twice as long as the king cobra, and after biting the prey, the venom can be directly injected into the muscle tissue, making the venom attack time more rapid, killing a mouse in just ten seconds.
The Gabonese viper is mainly distributed in the tropical rainforests of Guinea, gabonese republic, Nigeria and other countries in Africa, and its temperament is relatively docile and timid, it will not take the initiative to provoke other snakes and large creatures, it is completely unworthy of its huge size, it is lazy, likes to hide under dead branches and leaves to wait for prey to arrive in front of it, and capture food through sneak attacks. Because there are few people in the rainforest, only 7 cases of Viper injuries in Gabon have been recorded, of which 6 people have mild symptoms of poisoning, and they were sent to the hospital in time to inject serum for treatment, and the other 1 was more seriously poisoned, and died of poisoning in less than 2 hours. Those few cured patients also endured inhuman torture, the skin and muscles have serious ulceration, although this damage is not as serious as fatal, but left irreparable sequelae, which shows that although the toxicity of Gabonese viper is not strong, the comprehensive strength is still very terrible.
So can the Gabonese Viper fight the King Cobra? First of all, it is worth mentioning that the king cobra only lives in Asian countries, and there is no way to meet the African viper, and we can only speculate who is stronger through the habits and abilities of the two. Among the known venomous snakes, the king cobra is the longest, and its weight is comparable to that of the Gabonese sizzling viper, and the venom king cobra is more prominent, and its toxicity test is: subcutaneous injection ld50 = 0.34-1.8mg/Kg. Because of the different areas of life and age, the size and toxicity of the king cobra have a certain gap, according to the test comparison, China's king cobra is small, not as good as India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and other countries, but China's king cobra is more toxic than the most toxic, but also the most toxic in all regions.
The venom of the king cobra will also be affected by age, the older the more toxic, the weaker the toxicity, the corresponding is that the amount of detoxification will be improved, its maximum detoxification amount is 1700 mg, the average detoxification amount is about 200-400 mg, plus it has a famous neurotoxin and cardiac toxin, it is also the most lethal rate and venomous rate of all venomous snakes, the fastest poisoning time is less than half an hour, the mortality rate can reach more than 68%, and the comprehensive toxicity intensity is far more than that of Gabonese viper. The most important thing is that it also has a very domineering snake-eating and aggressiveness, encountering other snakes not only will not avoid, but will be very excited to rush up to prey on each other, in contrast, the Gabonese viper is particularly weak, the movement speed is not to say, most of the vipers in the viper family do not have snake-eating nature, do not know how to fight with the same kind, snake-eating counterparts seem to be natural enemies to them.
If the two really meet, the Gabonese viper can only escape, in the face of the king cobra's powerful aura, it does not even have the courage to fight back, coupled with the king cobra's long-term predation of various poisonous snakes, combat experience and skills are very rich, can effectively dodge the snake attack, it is not easy to bite it head-on. Even if the Gabonese sizzling viper wins by sneaking attack, he will be killed by the king cobra first, and the venom of the king cobra can quickly paralyze the prey, paralyzing the prey and unable to move, and the effect time is even shorter, and the Gabonese viper will definitely become the food of the other party first.