What is your favorite *VENOMOUS* Snake?

What's your favorite venomous Snake? Why?

Mine is either the Inland Taipan, the Gaboon Viper, the Copperhead Viper, or the Boomslang.

Taipan, because they fascinate me of how venomous they are. They have the most toxic venom of all snakes.

I love the Gaboon Viper, because of it's sheer beauty. They have a gorgous pattern. They're very interesting, too. They have the longest fangs of any snake (2 inches!!).

The Copperhead, too, because of it's awesome pattern. They have amazing camaflouge.

The Boomslang... do I have to have a reason? They are a beautiful bright green, and have huge eyes.

Ohhhh! I completely forgot...the BLACK MAMBA! They are awesome! The second longest venomous snake at up to 12 feet long. The fastest snake at 14 mph. One of the most aggresive species. They will actually want to bite you. They will chase you if they see you. Yet another reason... they can bite up to a dozen times! Over and over, injecting more venom each time. And last but not least they are one of the most venomous snakes in the world. If you are bitten by this Mamba and you don't get antivenom, you are 100% garanteed to die within 30 minutes! :shock: And you know with most snakes 25% of the bites are dry bites (they inject no venom)? Well not the Black Mamba, they inject copias amounts of venom every time... :shock:

What's yours?

 

Are you sure about the most venomous being the taipan? Why am I thinking it's a brown snake or black snake from Oz?

Anyway..favourites..i'd go for Copperhead and Gaboon Viper for their geometric patterning and coloration. The bush vipers (African) and eyelash vipers are gorgeous due to their coloration but more importantly, the shapes of their heads..they just look bad@ss!! And lastly, i think very little comes close to the sheer brightness of the green coloration of green mambas..if you see them in person, it's unbelievable!

 

The Eastern Brown is the second.

Have you seen a Green Mamba in Person?? :shock:

 

Indeed I have..gorgeous snake!

 

Lucky... I would love to see one.

 

preferably with a pane of glass between you

 

LOL indeed. I've seen a green mamba in person. At the reptile zoo near me. But that was three years ago. My favs are bush vipers cause of their colouring and looks. I love their eyes and scales! Eyelash vipers for the same reason as skunky. Look at this pic and tell me they're not bad@ss :wink:


And my third fav is the Sidewinder. Come on, look at how they move. It's awesome

 

Western Diamondback Rattlesnake. Surprisingly, I have never had the pleasure of handling one; I always see pictures of my buds with that giant 4 footer. I should consider myself lucky, but don't, I'm looking for trouble I guess.

 

I love the eastern diamondback! And also i think the indian cobras are pretty neat. But nothing comes up to a King cobra. Think of a snake that can look you in the eyes. When you are standing up!

 

I like the Gaboon Viper, the Eyelash Viper, and the King Cobra. My favorite among them is the Gaboon.

The Taipan is the most venomous terrestrial snake. But that also depends on if you are measuring the toxicity of the venom, or the amount of toxic venom injected per bite. You will see about four or five different snakes listed as the most venomous by different books, it just depends on what you are measuring.

 

Since everyone likes exotic reptiles (meaning elapidae, and not crotalids), Egyptian Banded Cobras and Monocled Cobras are some other favorites.

 

That is Crotalus adamanteus

 

You know, I've never understood the fascination with rattlers..I just dont find them attractive/interesting snakes. But that's just me..beauty, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder

 

And you live in Georgia. I would almost kill to live there lol
elapidaes are nice but not as nice as Crotalus.

 

Sigh..and I once respected you

 

Not saying i would kill you ;-) Perhaps serious miming but not killing. lol
Do you ever find Crotalus adamanteus down there?

 

Yeah, occasionally bump into him in the pub on fridays

 

You sit down and have a beer together right ;-)

 

I live in colorado. my father in-law caught a rattler in the mountains.

 

mY favorite would be the boomslang. SUch a cool snake.