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by vipers on October 3, 2009
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Everyone that's seen my post about the inland taipan and the sea snake being on par better listen to this! When I was reading a book called "True or false? Reptiles" it said that the sea krait has the most toxic substance found in nature. So now i'm rapidly looking it up to see wich is deadlier! But then I found another book that said that it DID NOT HAVE VENOM!!! You better know that I wouldn't beleive THAT information!
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by rockclimber on October 3, 2009
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The Sea Krait is not the most venomous snake, or at least I have researched this topic a little and have found the Inland Taipan to be the worlds most venomous snake. I will look in to this more.
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by Cro on October 3, 2009
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Tristan,
Try not to get so wrapped up in remembering statistics.
Stuff like "is a tapan more venomous than a Sea Krait," etc.
The fact of the matter, is it does not matter.
Lets say one drop of the venom from one of them will kill 110 people, and one drop of venom from the other will kill 90 people.
Who cares ?
If you as a individual get bitten by a snake that has enough venom, or toxic enough venom, to kill that many people, it really does not matter if it will kill 90 people, or 110 people. What matters is getting to a hospital, and getting antivenom as quick as possible.
And using a constriction bandage to keep the venom from spreading.
There are far more fascinating things you can learn about those snakes besides venom charts. Like, what do those snakes do for a living ? What kind of places do they like to hide? What do they eat? Where do they sleep? Where do they spend the cold winter months? How many eggs do they produce? How many of the babies that hatch out survive to adulthood? Do they protect the eggs and build a nest ? What animals prey on those baby snakes ?
Do you see my point ? There is tons to learn about ANY snake. You can ask those same questions about your pet corn snake or hognose snake.
Just do not get all hooked up on this learning statistics thing, where folks try to remember LD50 charts like they would learn the batting average of some guy on a baseball card.
I hope this makes some sense to you. I see a lot of young herpers trying to remember all of these statistical things, when they should be learning stuff like the natural history and ecology of the animals they like.
The point I am trying to make, is that a lot of you young folks seem to be obsessed with remembering statistics, stuff like which snake is fastest, or weighs more, or has the most potent venom. While stuff like that is interesting, just don't get all wrapped up in learning it. It is not all that important.
Best Regards
John Z
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by Nakita on October 3, 2009
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It is indeed some nasty stuff. I've heard estimates that it would take less than 900 grams of purified toxin to kill every person on the face of the earth. I'd say that's pretty virulent.
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by puffadder7 on October 4, 2009
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exactly do not get rapped up in all this ld50, i got to say though, even on bryan fry's page he says 'the inland taipan and eastern brown has the most toxic venom land or sea' now i would say he is pretty qualified to say that, i was doing the math on different ld50, and the coastal taipan (oxyuanaus scutellatus) for intraperitoneal has a lethal dose for a human is 630 micrograms, thats astonishing, cosidering that the inland taipan would be off the charts!!! i said dont get rapped up and look what i am doing lol, just my two cents, arin
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