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Text: Vientiane hardcore
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«——【Preamble】】 ——»
Generally speaking, relatively large snakes, we have the impression of some pythons, such as Burmese pythons, reticulated pythons, anacondas and other snakes, these snakes because they do not have venom and fangs, they need to rely on strangulation to eat the prey into the stomach, and the body is naturally very strong and huge.
But there is one snake whose length and average weight alone are enough to hang and remove these snakes.
Especially its crawling ability, it always makes people think that they are not very smart, do you know what kind of snake it is?
The continent of Africa is home to a lot of wildlife, and snakes are certainly one of them.
When we really set foot on this land, we must pay attention to several species of snakes, each of which is enough to kill people, and among them there is a snake that seems harmless to humans and animals, but it is a very deadly killer.
Next, I will introduce you to the deadly killers in Africa.
«——【Black Mamba Snake】——»
Speaking of venomous snakes in Africa, this longest venomous snake is none other than the black mamba, and not only that, but this guy's poison is also very violent.
In fact, the black mamba family is not only the black mamba, in fact, there are also varieties such as green mamba, Jane's mamba and East African green mamba, which are not very similar.
But only the black mamba is impressive, for example, I was attracted to the black mamba's appearance.
The Black Mamba has a beautiful appearance, with a metallic gray on the back and a lighter color on the belly. The coffin-shaped head and large mouth all show its abilities.
It is one of the deadliest venomous snakes on the African continent, and its venom contains a large amount of nerve poison, and after a human is bitten, symptoms of poisoning will appear within a short period of time.
Some people even went into shock within 30 minutes, but this is a rare occurrence.
Although it is difficult to achieve a fatal death within ten minutes, black mamba is indeed very toxic and has a high fatality rate.
From 1972 to 1989, the fatality rate of black mamba bites was 44% of the venomous snakebites recorded in Africa, which can be said to be quite high, even for the silver krait, which is the most poisonous snake in the continent.
After the black mamba bites a person, there will be symptoms of lidness and drooping, throat discomfort, drooling, and difficulty breathing, and if there is no timely symptomatic treatment, then people will die of respiratory failure.
Although the number of black mambas is small and they do not live much around human settlements, the number of people who die from black mamba bites every year remains high.
In addition, the black mamba is the longest venomous snake in Africa, with an average body length of 2.2-2.7 meters, and the longest can grow to more than 3 meters, which means that the amount of venom injected into the black mamba is quite high.
Experts have experimented that the average amount of black mamba detoxification is more than 100 milligrams, while the amount it can kill people only requires a few tens of milligrams.
Some people once said that the Black Mamba was very fast, and the speed of 20 kilometers per hour was comparable to that of Usain Bolt, the world's flying man.
In fact, the black mamba can indeed crawl very fast, but not much faster, it can only be said that its speed is among the best among snakes, but it can only be regarded as average among reptiles.
«——【Gabon sizzling viper】——»
In Africa, there is a kind of snake that bites people a lot all year round, its body is short, thick and round, it looks fat, especially the crawling posture, which makes people laugh.
This snake is the Gabon sizzler.
There are four members of the African sizzling viper family, and the Gabon siper is like the eldest in the family, with an average body length of about 1.2-1.5 meters, but it can weigh 10 catties or even more.
You must know that even a king cobra can't make more than 10 pounds when it is more than a meter.
The whole body of the Gabon viper looks like a caterpillar, and when crawling, it does not move in an S shape like other snakes, but uses its abdominal muscles to wriggle forward, after all, it is so fat that it is not easy to bend, let alone crawl faster.
But don't look at the Gabon sizzling viper looking fat, human-animal harmless, in fact, it is very ferocious and poisonous.
The five-step snake on the mainland has always been called the king of rotten meat, and the Gabon sizzler is the king of rotten meat in Africa.
Although the toxicity of the Gabon sniper is mainly blood-toxin, accompanied by a large amount of hemolytic toxins, the risk of being bitten is very high. Especially local symptoms, there can be very severe blister ulceration and necrosis.
There are many people in Africa who have lost parts of their bodies to the bite of the Gabon viper, which is very similar to the bite of the five-step snake on the mainland, but more severe than the five-step snake.
Because of its size, the largest Gabon siper can grow up to 200 centimeters and can even weigh up to 10 kilograms, so the maximum detoxification volume of Gabonese sibilant vipers can reach a staggering 2800 mg, and a single detoxification can also exceed 500 mg.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Gabon viper is even more terrifying than the king cobra.
Coupled with fangs up to 50 mm long, they can penetrate deeper into the body of the prey, so the prey targeted by the Gabon viper rarely escapes.
The king cobra is only immune to nerve poison, and has no resistance to the blood poison of the Gabon viper.
Not only that, but if it weren't for the fact that the Gabon Viper doesn't like to eat snakes, it would be difficult for the black mamba to escape from its mouth. After all, it is possible for a face king cobra to beat a snake, let alone a black mamba.
«——【·埃及眼镜蛇·】——»
There is also a deadly venomous snake in northern Africa, which is the main venomous snake that bites people in the Egyptian region, and that is the Egyptian cobra.
That's right, there are cobras in Africa, and not only that, but they are even as poisonous as the cobras in India.
If the Indian cobra is the head of the four heavenly kings of India, then the Egyptian cobra is the symbol of the Egyptian god of death.
The venomism of these guys is no joke, and it accounts for at least a third of snake bite deaths in northern Africa, and hundreds of people are bitten by Egyptian cobras every year.
The Egyptian cobra is a medium and large venomous snake in appearance, with a body length of about 1.5-2 meters, and like many snakes with nerve venom, the venom of the Egyptian cobra is mainly nerve venom.
But this guy has more than one killer feature, the Egyptian cobra also has cytotoxins, and this cytotoxin is very scary.
In Egypt, if you are bitten by a cobra, either the symptoms of nerve poison are very obvious, or the symptoms of cytotoxicity are very obvious, the former will make people lose their lives, and the latter will also make people rot meat.
Most cobras are the same as Egyptian cobras, if the neurotoxicity is stronger, the cytotoxicity will be less obvious, but if the symptoms of neurotoxicity are more, the cytotoxicity will be very severe.
Most of the bites of Egyptian cobras are mainly cytovenous, that is, many people have rotten meat after being bitten.
«——【·Conclusion·】——»
In addition to these, there are many venomous snakes in Africa, such as various cobras, venomous cobras, golden cobras, horned vipers, sand vipers, and saw-scale vipers.
These venomous snakes are all famous African killers in Africa, and they are all very poisonous.
If these poisonous snakes meet the king cobra, it is not known whether the king cobra can have a full meal, or if these poisonous snakes will become the new king of all snakes.