Attacks & Accidents in zoos and facilities

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(03-27-2019, 04:14 PM)Sanju Wrote:

(03-27-2019, 01:42 PM)Shadow Wrote: Venom for sure can kill any animal, but I wonder if some animals have just too thick skin to even notice when some sneak breaks fangs while trying to bite

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Bitis gabonica has the longest fangs – up to 2.2 inches in length (55 mm) – and the highest venom yield of any snake. Large specimen of exactly 1.8 m (5.9 ft) total length, caught in 1973, was found to have weighed 11.3 kg (25 lb) with an empty stomach.

The snake's cytotoxic venom itself is not considered particularly toxic based on tests conducted in mice. In mice, the LD50 is 0.8–5.0 mg/kg IV, 2.0 mg/kg IP and 5.0–6.0 mg/kg SC. The venom glands are enormous and each bite produces the largest quantities of venom of any venomous snake; this is partially due to the fact that, unlike many African vipers such as the puff adder, the Gaboon viper does not release after a bite, which enables it to inject larger amounts of venom. A venom yield range of 200–1000 mg (of dried venom) from 5 to 9.7 ml (450–2400 mg) of venom may be injected in a single bite. 14 mg of venom would be enough to kill a human being: equivalent to 0.06 ml of venom, or 1/50 to 1/1000 of what can be obtained in a single milking.

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Yes, that fang can be 5 cm in skeleton, but what is it really when alive, how deep it can bite and has it enough force to penetrate for instance elephant skin? I don´t know if there are cases, where a snake would have killed an elephant or a rhino. That was just a thought crossing my mind :) It might demand some luck for a snake to hit some spot, where skin isn´t so thick, when talking about animals like elephants, rhinos and maybe we could include there hippos too. Those are something else, than antilopes, monkeys and lions and tigers, when looking at what it takes to make a wound for them. This is maybe a wrong thread for that, but maybe here is some other suitable if someone can find some reliable case? :) Reply