I think Russel’s kill more people than any other snake. Farmers in places like India are routinely struck as they work their fields.
Saw scaled vipers are very similar, with really nasty muscle-dissolving venom toxins, and they inject a LOT. They’re pretty much the same deal as Russel’s, in Northern Africa, Middle East and India. They pack a lot of punch for a small snake.
Taipans and brown snakes are just nasty . Aggressive, super potent venom, and bite multiple times. True, browns have tiny teeth (fangs are only 2-3 mm long), but textilotoxin is the most lethal snake toxin known, and they really only need to get a tiny little bit inside you… and it takes so long to die! Hours or days of progressive decline. Unless they manage to get a lucky injection into a vein in the finger web, for example: a few people have died within 30 minutes of a bite under those circumstances.
Taipans, while not quite such poisonous individual toxins, inject a lot more, with much bigger teeth, and you’re generally a long way from help if yo get bitten. And they’re a big snake.
and then there’s the black mamba… they’re a really fast snake (15-20km/h or so) and can lift half their body of the ground so their strike covers a lot of distance. and the venom is not nice. their venoms, like other elapids (cobras and most Australian snakes) contain quite potent cardiotoxins and neurotoxins. and they injet a lot of venom.
Habu and so on are generally not as aggressive as these. Plus, these five snakes’ size and behaviour (big and fast, or small and cryptic) and venom potency mean big trouble if you’re bitten without access to antivenom (or even with antivenom, which can require lots of doses).
We go put usually once a week at night. Nothing wild or crazy but loads of frogs, spiders, insects etc. Sometimes snakes, lizards etc. Usually just me and my partner, but always bring along friends visiting. Where are you looking to search?
Someone discovered a rare Swinhoe’s brown frog at Aowanda forest part, and began taking photos of it. At some point they realized the frog wasn’t moving because a snake has already latched on to it.
Hmm , Thankyou for your concerns mr. Bear . I’m already using one eye to look on here . This helps me not . don’t think I can overcome my fear of snakes . I’m not too bad with the squeezy ones … but those bitey ones
Chinese cobra spotted near zhishan mrt.
Chinese cobra spotted by a mother of a tes student near Lutetia coffee shop.
The picture was shared to other parents in the school
just when I thought it was safe to check out the snake thread 
. I’m not too bad with the squeezy ones … but those bitey ones 