(August 13, 2019 at 9:27 am)Athene Wrote: I learned that the Inland taipan is actually considered to be the world's most venomous snake as far as drop for drop toxicity goes.
The Saw-scaled viper is responsible for the most deaths.
I guess either could be regarded as "World's Deadliest Snake", depending on the criteria.
My cousin and I were swimming in the Pioneer River off Marian.
We get back to the ute and a baby Taipan comes out from underneath, reared up, quite fast.
We killed it and then I saw another in the grass.
So we decided there might be a mum if there's more than one baby about.
I mean, I know fuck all about Taipans.
But the car doors were open and the possibility that it might be in the ute, fuck me, scariest fucking car drive home ever. :-)
We had an Indian feller in my home town named Ram Chandra and he was the Taipan Man.
He had a snake side show and he travelled all the schools when I was a kid.
When I was 18 I dated his niece for a bit and I got to meet him a few times and check out his huge snake collection.
He did a lot for venom research, a great man.
