The Black Mamba, Africa’s most venomous snake
The Black Mamba is a snake belonging to the family Elapidae, which means that it falls into a category of highly venomous snakes, of which not all can be part and of which the Black Mamba is undoubtedly the queen.
- Few snakes are as daring.
- Agile and unpredictable as black mamba.
- With a high danger associated with these characteristics.
- Their bite is deadly and although it is not the most venomous snake in the world (this species is in Australia).
- It ranks second on this list Do you want to know more about this amazing species?So don’t miss this Animal Expert article we’ve told you about.
The black mamba is a snake native to Africa and is distributed in the following regions:
It adapts to a large amount of land ranging from the most populated forests to semi-arid deserts, although they rarely live on lands above 1000 meters above sea level.
Your skin may vary from green to gray, but it takes its name from the color inside your mouth cavity, completely black, can reach 4.5 meters long, weighs about 1.6 kilograms and has a life expectancy of 11 years.
It is a daytime and very territorial snake that, when threatened, its lair is able to reach an astonishing speed of 20 km/hour.
Obviously, a snake with these characteristics is a great predator, but it acts by the ambush method.
The black mamba waits for the prey in its permanent lair, detects it mainly by vision, then lifts much of its body to the ground, bites the prey, releases it and retreats; expects the prey to fall victim to the paralysis caused by the poison and die.It then approaches and ingests the prey, digesting it completely over an average period of 8 hours.
On the other hand, when the prey shows a kind of resistance, the black mamba attacks slightly differently, its bites are more aggressive and repeated, thus causing the death of its prey more quickly.
The venom of black mamba is called dendrotoxin, a neurotoxin that works mainly causing paralysis of the respiratory muscles by the action it exerts on the nervous system.
An adult human only needs 10 to 15 milligrams of dendrotoxin to die, but with each bite, black mamba releases 100 milligrams of poison, so there is no doubt that his sting is fatal, however, knowledge through theory is fantastic, but avoiding it is essential to continue living.
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