Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Africa Black Mamba Question.

drop for drop of venom you guys have some truly nasty customers down there.....your inland taipan that you mention is the most toxic land dwelling snake by quite aways.....but its also out of however you want to rank the top 10 snakes prolly the least likely for you to get bit by cause they live in some real remote country....far more likely to get bit by the king brown cause it lives around some of your cities...

i dont view your snakes as primitive, atleast not any more primitive than a cobra or a mamba.....physiologically are they more primitive than our rattlesnakes? yeah but their venom is as highly evolved as any other venomous snake species....our rattlesnakes are considered the most highly evolved snakes but if yah ask any keeper they are dumb as a rock compared to king cobras which technically are a more primitive snake....

drop for drop our diamondback rattlers dont have that toxic of venom compared to some of our smaller species....the lil 4 foot prairie ratters we have around here in the frozen north are more toxic, southern pacific and mohave greens are more toxic yet.....but like your king browns our diamondbacks live in areas with more ppl and are a big enough snake though they dont rank high drop for drop, they are packing a whole lot of drops in that big head of a 6 foot plus snake.....