Posted by filthy on August 20, 1999 at 06:50:25:
In Reply to: List of the "worlds top venomous snakes" as shown in BizArre magazine.... posted by copperhead on August 19, 1999 at 21:49:17:
: The article was written by Steve Lopes, with quotes from Dr.Struan Sutherland.
: The following were apparently rated on toxicity, temper, and frequency of attacks.
: 1. Inland Taipan
: 2. Eastern Brown Snake
: 3. Taipan
: 4. Eastern Tiger Snake
: 5. Reevesby Island Tiger Snake
: 6. WA Tiger Snake
: 7. Chappell Island Tiger Snake
: 8. Death Adder
: 9. Western Brown Snake
: 10.Copperhead
: 11.Indian Cobra
: 12.Dugite
: 13.Papuan Banded Snakes
: 14.Stephen's Banded Snake
: 15.Rough-scaled Snake
: 16.King Cobra
: 17.Blue-bellied Black Snake
: 18.Collet's Snake
: 19.Mulga Snake
: 20.Red-bellied Black Snake
: 21.Small-eyed Snake
: 22.Eastern Diamond Back Rattlesnake.
: There they are, seems to me like kind of a strange rating system.
These rating lists are all nonsense in that one opinion is no better than any other. It's all according to who you're talking to.
This is not saying that the people who compile them don't know their shit, it's saying that herpetologists, like everybody else differ.
Filthy's Most Dangerousest Hot Snake in the Whole Damn World: De one dat's mos' likely to bite de fool!