1) Inland Taipan :
Introducing the most venomous snake in the world. The inland taipan is also known as the fierce snake or small-scaled snake.
Occurrence: found only in Australia.
Size of Inland Taipan: Average length for adults is about 2 meters. With a maximum of about 2.7m
Diet: Inland taipans are carnivores. They consume only mammals, mostly rodents, such as a long, haired rat, the plains rat, and the introduced house mouse.
Venom Of Inland Taipan: One drop of Inland Taipan venom is enough to kill 100 people.
Symptoms: After biting by inland Taipan, symptoms include headache, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, collapse, and paralysis.
Inland Taipan
2) Eastern brown snake:
The eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textiles), often referred to as the common brown snake, is a highly venomous snake species.
Occurrence: Found in eastern and central Australia.
Size of Eastern brown snake: The average length of a Brown Snake is about 1.5 m, but they can grow up to 2.4 m long.
Diet: Eat mice and rats and mostly small vertebrates.
The venom of Eastern brown snake: The venom of the Eastern Brown Snake is rated as the second most toxic of all snake venoms in the world, next only to that of Inland Taipan (which is also a native of Australia). The venom of an Eastern Brown Snake contains a cocktail of poisons.
Symptoms: Brown snakes sometimes leave no obvious bite site. Can cause non-specific symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and headaches.
Eastern brown snake
3) Tiger Snake :
The scientific name of the tiger snake is (Notechis scutatus). Tiger snakes are highly venomous snakes. These snakes are often banded like a tiger and highly variable in their color.
Occurrence: Found in the southern regions of Australia and Mount Isa Queensland, including its coastal islands, such as Tasmania.
Size of Tiger Snake: They are usually around 1m long but may grow up to 1.5m.
Diet: They primarily eat frogs, but they also consume other reptiles, birds, small mammals, and fish.
The venom of Tiger snake: Tiger snake venom contains potent presynaptic neurotoxins (toxins in venom that cause paralysis or muscle weakness).
Symptoms: May cause neurotoxic, hemolytic, coagulopathic, and myolysis reactions; paralysis or death can ensue in as short as 30 minutes.
Tiger Snake
4) Black Mamba :
The scientific name of the black mamba is ( Dendroaspis polylepis ). It is the second-longest venomous snake after the king cobra.
Occurrence: Black mambas live in the savannas and rocky hills of southern and eastern Africa.
Size Of Black Mamba: Reaching up to 14 feet in length, although 8.2 feet is more than the average.
Diet: Mostly preys on small vertebrates such as birds, particularly nestlings and fledglings, and small mammals like rodents, bats, hyraxes, and bushbabies.
Venom Of Black Mamba: The venom is neurotoxic and cardiotoxic. The black mamba is born with two to three drops of venom per fang. It is a front-fanged snake with fangs up to 6.5 mm in length.
Symptoms: The bite of a black mamba can cause a collapse in humans within 45 minutes or less. Without appropriate antivenom treatment, symptoms typically progress to respiratory failure, which leads to cardiovascular collapse and death.
Black Mamba
5) King Cobra :
King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah), also called hamadryad. The king cobra is a venomous snake. The world's largest venomous snake.
Occurrence: King cobras live in northern India, east to southern China, including Hong Kong and Hainan; south throughout the Malay Peninsula and east to western Indonesia and the Philippines.
Size Of King Cobra: The king cobra's average size is 10 to 12 feet (3 to 3.6 meters), but it can reach 18 feet (5.4 meters).
Diet: King cobras eat mice and rats. The snakes eaten by the king cobra are mostly the larger harmless species, such as Asian rat snakes.
Venom Of King Cobra: Their venom is not the most potent among venomous snakes, but the amount of neurotoxin they can deliver in a single bite—up to two-tenths of a fluid ounce—is enough to kill 20 people or even an elephant.
Symptoms :
King cobra venom affects the respiratory centers in the brain, causing respiratory arrest and cardiac failure.
King Cobra
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