Things you want to know about two very deadly

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Danger #1 -TaipanThe Taipan is a group of 3 subspecies:-

1-The Coastal Taipan

2-The Inland Taipan

3-The Central Ranges Taipan

Taipans mainly live in Australia. They may have got there by poisonous sea snakes which eventually came on land.

Hunting strategy, Poison & Accuracy in Killing Prey

Just like most other snakes, the Taipan can smell with it’s tongue. All it has to do then is find it’s prey by smelling it. Then it is practically supper-time. The Taipan’s venom can kill 150 people

Coastal Taipan

The Coastal Taipan is the third most deadly land snake in the world. It lives in the Northern to Eastern part of Australia and in New Guinea. It is the biggest Taipan but still it eats only rats and other rodents.

Inland TaipanThe Inland Taipan is also called “the fierce snake” and “the small scaled snake”. It is considered as the deadliest land snake in the world.

Inland Taipans are unique because unlike other snakes, which only bite once, the snake will bite up to 7 times at once.

Other Useful Facts On Taipan

The taipan’s venom is neurotoxic which means that it can clog your blood and even stop your nervous system. All of these snakes very deadly and all can easily kill you.

Danger #2-Rattlesnake

Rattlesnakes are from the group of snakes called pit vipers. There are around 30 different types of rattlesnakes, some of the most common rattlesnakes are the timber, sidewinder, ridge-nosed, and Northern Pacific rattle snake.

The Rattlesnake gets it’s name from the small stub at the back of its tail which produces a sound of a rattle.

Where they live, and their rattle

Rattlesnakes live from Canada to Argentina.Rattlesnake are usually found in dry, arid places.

A Rattlesnake’s rattle is made of loose scales called segments. A small rattlesnake will only have one segment while a bigger snake will have more.

What they eat and how they hunt

Rattlesnakes eat rats, birds, amphibians and other harmful pests to crops.

Unlike other snakes, rattlesnakes can sense heat with “heat sensing pits” on their head. This is one of the major tools used by all vipers.

Venom

Almost all species of rattlesnakes can control how much venom they release. So they can release more venom if threatened and less if hunting.

Most species also have Hemotoxic venom. This venom destroys tissues and causes blood-clotting.

Mating

A few species of rattlesnakes mate in the spring, but most mate in the summer or fall.

During this time female Rattlesnakes leave pheromones wich the males follow with their Jacobson’s organ.

Resources

Wikipedia and World Books