There are many kinds of snakes in the world, but as long as it is a snake, it can not avoid its slender body, from the world's smallest snake hook blind snake to the world's largest Amazon forest crab, all maintain a slender body, even if the Amazon forest crab can grow to 250 kilograms, it is also a very strong slender type.
However, there are exceptions to everything, the Gabonese viper who lives in the tropical rainforest area south of the Sahara Desert in Africa has given up his slender body and the crawling way of meandering movement, probably because he does not want to be a snake anymore, he is too envious of the caterpillar and "born from the heart", not only learned the caterpillar-like crawler movement, but also through his worst body management, he made himself fat into a fat short.
However, although it is a fat short, but also can not change the essence of its poisonous snake, the world's largest venomous snake king cobra up to 5.5 meters, weighing 6 kilograms, although this cargo is also about 1 meter in length, but can have an average weight of 8 kilograms, a leap to the world's venomous snake size second only to the existence of the king cobra, do not know the king cobra to see this fat house behind it, there is no Goku to see the feeling of the eight precepts.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the Gabonese viper is fat, but its attack is not slow at all</h1>
The Gabonese viper, which lives mainly in the natural environment of Africa near the equator, prefers to be on the forest floor, spending a lot of time waiting for some prey to pass by where they rest, and then offering their "poisonous kiss". Because the body color of the Gabonese viper is very similar to the environment around them, which improves their concealment and accuracy of predation, this body color makes it difficult to detect the prey passing by.
The unique movement of the Gabonese viper benefits from its developed ribs, snakes do not have a sternum, relying on the activity of the ribs to move with the muscles, but the ribs of the Gabon viper can move back and forth, there are rib muscle connections between the ribs and the skin of the abdomen, when the ribs move back and forth, the skin of the abdomen also moves back and forth, because the whole body is also moving in the belly, so it looks like a caterpillar squirming.
However, this seemingly funny way of movement is very suitable for this "heavy tank", and the developed intercostal muscles can make the Gabon sizzling vipers like springs to obtain a powerful explosive force, although the short fat body seems clumsy, but their bouncing power is very exaggerated, it can rely on muscle explosiveness to expand its attack range to 2 meters, the speed of the attack can be compared with cobras and rattlesnakes, we are observing them motionless like a "fat house", in fact, they rest during the day and work at night.
Gabon sizzling viper movement is unique, they attack the prey is also unique, other venomous snakes generally bite a bite to inject venom into the prey is finished, the rest is to follow the prey to wait for the poison to die, but the Gabon sizzling viper is different, probably very confident in their own physique and lazy to walk, it will be in the bite of the prey after the dead drag the prey does not let go, until the prey poison death or incapacity to loosen, their recipes are not all little guys, guinea pigs, pigeons, birds and beasts, They are also targeted by small wild boars and roe deer.
Lazy to walk is a joke, in fact, the Gabonese viper does not have a hot cheek socket, the hot cheek socket is a viper, pit viper head on both sides of the nostrils and eyes have a concave funnel-like temperature organ, easy to distinguish the direction and position of the warm-blooded animal to prey, do not bite, the prey runs by the snake's vision, it really can not be found.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the weight of the Gabonese viper is one thing, and their toxicity cannot be ignored</h1>
As an extremely virulent snake of the genus Sizzle viper, it is one of the most venomous snakes in the world, has the longest poisonous fangs in the world, and its venom production is far superior to other snakes.
The venom toxicity of the Gabonese viper is generally measured by LD50, usually describing the toxicity of a snake venom, commonly described as a dose (LD50) that can kill half of the overall snake venom of the test, the expression of LD50 as the quality of dry snake venom and the ratio of test biological body weight, the LD50 subcutaneous toxicity of Gabonese viper is 5.0-20 mg/kg, the venous toxicity is 0.55-0.72 mg/kg, and the intraperitoneal toxicity is 1.2-3.29 mg/kg, for comparison, the subcutaneous injection of the king cobra is 1.7 mg/kg/ kg. kg, intravenous injection 1.31mg/kg and intraperitoneal injection 1.644mg/kg, the world's first venomous snake Taipan snake LD50 subcutaneous injection of 0.025mg/kg.
Purely through the LD50 data of the Gabonese viper, its venom toxicity ranking is not high, but the venom of the venomous snake can not simply look at the LD50 data, the venom is not enough venom injection to make up the strategy of many famous venomous snakes, its average detoxification amount is 450-600mg, in 1984, an individual single detoxification 2400mg, the amount of venom of the Gabon viper was the highest among all snakes before 2018.
Gabonese viper has both neurotoxins and blood toxins, adults are killed by Gabon's venom is 60 mg, and the venom it discharges in actual combat is usually more than 300 mg, which is still in the habit of the venomous snake to retain the venom, and it is no problem to put down four or five people in one bite, they also have the longest poisonous fangs of the venomous snake, the longest up to 5 cm tubular poisonous fangs, the smaller prey can stab to death only with the poisonous fangs, and when catching the Gabonese viper, if you pinch its neck, Its poisonous fangs are likely to pierce its jaw and attack the hands of its captors, making it a veritable and very dangerous poisonous snake.
From left to right are the east brown, tiger snake, Taipan snake, and the poisonous fangs of the Gabonese viper
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
As the second largest venomous snake in the world, the Gabonese viper is one of the members of the first echelon of the number of injured in Africa due to its highly active and non-avoidant of pedestrians at night, coupled with its wide distribution in Africa.
Many times the Gabon sizzling viper and the rhinoceros viper are confused, in fact, it is very easy to distinguish, the Gabon sizzle viper has two stripes under the eyes, the rhinoceros viper has a stripe and a horn, and the two poisonous snakes are close relatives, and they have to be careful.
Sizzling vipers in upper Gabon, sizzling vipers in the lower parts
There is also a point that many people are curious about who will be stronger when the Gabonese viper and the king cobra fight, the venom of the king cobra is much stronger than the venom of the Gabon viper, and the venom of the gabon viper is obviously victorious, but the venom dose of the Gabon viper is much larger than that of the king cobra, and the general king cobra immunity snake venom is the snake venom of the snake in the living environment, as for the Gabon sizzling viper venom in Africa, whether it can be immune is another matter, so if they bite each other at the same time and release the venom, who is more powerful is difficult to say.
The poisonous fangs of the Gabon viper are long and sharp, if you do not consider the toxicity, the piercing damage is enough to hit the king cobra, and the Gabon Viper is larger than the King Cobra, but it cannot be ignored that the King Cobra is a viper hunter, flexible movements, not the fat Gabon Viper can attack, if the King Cobra and the Gabon Viper meet, the result is still that the King Cobra is stronger, worthy of being the king of snakes.
References: Baidu Encyclopedia, Viper Network