Originally Posted by Starman
Originally Posted by Zengela
Years ago I almost stepped on 2!!! Mating puff adders. 2 257 Weatherby mag 115 gr. Trophy Bonded Bearclaw at point blank
(2 inches) killed them.


PAs are primarily an ambush species so bites normally involve careless humans running into them while the snake is
minding its own business.

After already spotting the mating pair why the big need to kill them? paranoia I gather.


Originally Posted by Zengela
Would have been fatal to be bit..


Many venomous snake bites in Africa don't result in actual death. Deaths numbers (drawn from health centre data)
is in the area of 7000+ p.a.

..but actual venomous bites (drawn from health centre data) number above 300,000 p.a.

estimated unreported bites and deaths are a few times greater than those figures.

source: 2011 March issue of journal Toxicon.

additional: http://zoobase.toxinology.net/Exotic%20Snake%20Protocols/ESBP-Bitis-arietans.pdf



Why kill them? So that they are good snakes.

We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....