Most scaring venomous snakes to keep

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Nikola Chavkosk

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In my opinion, the most scaring venomous snakes to keep in captivity (in a zoo, and only in a zoo, :p with mentor OK), or not to say, I would not love to keep them never ever, are:

1. Black mamba
2. Boomslang
3. Inland taipan
4. Egyptian cobra
5. Maybe bushmaster snakes
6. Blue krait (or kraits in general) (because of pre-synaptic neurotoxins bungartoxins)
7. Russels's viper


What are yours?
 
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Nikola Chavkosk said:
In my opinion, the most fearful venomous snakes to keep in captivity (in a zoo, and only in a zoo, :p with mentor OK), or not to say, I would not love to keep them never ever, are:

1. Black mamba
2. Boomslang
3. Inland taipan
4. Egyptian cobra
5. Maybe bushmaster snakes
6. Blue krait (or kraits in general) (because of pre-synaptic neurotoxins bungartoxins)
7. Russels's viper


What are yours?
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African rock python
Najas
Spitting cobra
King cobra
Russell's viper
Inland taipan
Golden lancehead
Black mamba
 
FelipeDBKO said:
African rock python
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Yeah, as both rock python species are really feared because of their potent venom...just like the infamous ball python.:rolleyes: ^^

Are both of you mighty wranglers of snakes and the English language aware that fearful = timid? Which might be true for some snake individuals, but probably isn’t the flashy expression you were going for in the first place...;)
 
Batto said:
Are both of you mighty wranglers of snakes and the English language aware that fearful = timid? Which might be true for some snake individuals, but probably isn’t the flashy expression you were going for in the first place...;)
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:p Yeah I knowed, I would wrote scaring snakes but the thread was already submitted.
 
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Further to a request Nikola has sent via PM, I am now changing the thread title word-for-word to his preferred option.
 
The scariest venomous snake is the one that just bit you...
Otherwise, I respect (not fear) all “hot snakes”, but upset solid individuals of the King Cobra, the Black Mamba, Eastern Brown Snake, Coastal and Papuan Taipan, various large Naja, Bitis and Crotalus sp. specimens are a different sight to behold. The Fierce snakes I have worked with so far have been, except for occasional fits of temper, quite pleasant.
 
Batto said:
The scariest venomous snake is the one that just bit you...
Otherwise, I respect (not fear) all “hot snakes”, but upset solid individuals of the King Cobra, the Black Mamba, Eastern Brown Snake, Coastal and Papuan Taipan, various large Naja, Bitis and Crotalus sp. specimens are a different sight to behold. The Fierce snakes I have worked with so far have been, except for occasional fits of temper, quite pleasant.
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What are your favourite Crotalus spp.? I would love to have (in a zoo), Mexican West rattlesnake(s) (C. basiliscus) and/or Crotalus durissus.

And favourite Naja spp.? Mines: N. pallida, N. siamensis and N. melanoleuca.

I saw Crotalus durissus and Naja melanoleuca in Tierpark Hellabrunn last November.
 
Dark specimens of Crotalus cerberus & white Crotalus mitchelli pyrrhus

Naja samarensis, Naja nigricollis and high white Naja siamensis.
 
Batto said:
The scariest venomous snake is the one that just bit you...
Otherwise, I respect (not fear) all “hot snakes”, but upset solid individuals of the King Cobra, the Black Mamba, Eastern Brown Snake, Coastal and Papuan Taipan, various large Naja, Bitis and Crotalus sp. specimens are a different sight to behold. The Fierce snakes I have worked with so far have been, except for occasional fits of temper, quite pleasant.
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what does "solid" mean in this context? Is it a snake-keeper term?
 
oh ok, I thought maybe it had a specific snake-keeper meaning (in a similar way to "hot").
 
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