The mamba is probably the most venomous snake there is. Two drops of its poison can send a 200 pound man into paralysis. It really has no equal.
I hate snakes, spiders, bees, wasps, roaches. Pretty much every insect in existence is on my **** list. Every once in a while I will see a wasp fly in my direction when I'm walking into work and I will run and cry out like a little girl. I also make my wife kill any bugs that we see in the house. It's quite sad actually.
I'm curious, is the plural of mongoose "mongeese". A pack of mongeese, a gaggle of mongooses. Don't mind me, just some random musing.
I once ran over a 3 and a half foot copper snake in the middle of suberbia. I freaked out and got out of the car. It wasn't where I thought I ran over it. So I thought I must have been crazy, but then it was on the side of road and really pissed. So I left it alone. It was pretty cool none the less.
The most poisonous snake in the world is the Inland Taipan. It's venom is 12 times deadlier than the Black Mamba, 50 times deadlier than Indian cobras and 770 times more lethal than eastern diamond-backed rattlesnakes Of course average venom/bite for the Taipan is 44mg and for the Mamba it's around 100mg, and the Inland Taipan is shy whereas the Black Mamba is among the most agressive. On VenomousReptiles.org 57% of the nuts that own venomous snakes rate mambas as most dangerous while taipans only recieve 19% of the vote. Of special note are snakes with hemotoxic venom. The Mamba and Taipan have neurotoxic venom, which means that your nervous system siezes up, you become paralized, and you stop breathing. Alot of the North American snakes have hemotoxic venom, which poisons your blood instead of your nervous system. You are much less likely to die but you end up with gangrene & organ failure, and are much more painful than neurotoxic venoms. The rule is snakes with fangs that fold in are hemotoxic, and snakes with fixed fangs are neurotoxic, but I'm not sure this is 100% true. I'm also pretty sure that all North American snakes that are venomous are hemotoxic. For perspective, the coral snake has the strongest venom of North American snakes but the Eastern and Western Rattlesnake kill far more people because natural agression and behavior patterns.
from wikipedia- To be honest, I originally thought it would be a "pride" of mongooses, but looked it up to be sure.
I stand corrected! Thanks otto! Man! Thas one badass snake! [edit] And can I just say, thank the all mighty that I live in America and not South Africa or Taipei where we just have to deal with water moccasins and rattle snakes!
Using a custom-built aquarium at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, photographer Carl Hansen got this close-up view of deadly Yellow Bellied Sea Snakes (Pelamis platurus). Captured for study by STRI scientists, they have the most toxic venom of any snake. There is no known antivenom for their bite.
