The most dangerous snake is my ex wife.

..Pliskin..

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I hate snakes, but have only killed the poisonous ones. Although, as a Floridian, I would kill pythons too. This story gave me nightmares, read it and watch the video at your own risk...Snake Island, Brazil:

Snake island, forbidden rock off Brazil coast, is home to world's deadliest serpent | Daily Mail Online

Rattlesnakes - Timber, Diamondack

But there is one other. Once I was going into a building a guy with a humongous bush hog was chopping a nearby mulch area. This little black snake with white markings was so scared it was trying to get in the building with me. I thought, "I don't believe he's poisonous, but I've never seen one like it, so...."

I'm glad I didn't 'help' the poor little critter because it turns out it was a pygmy rattlesnake, probably a juvenile because the markings weren't very clear.

pygmy rattlesnake juvenile sc - Google Search

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I'm no snake expert and never even seen a live rattler up close. But whether or not Australia has the deadliest, I associate it with more of poisonous everything from snakes, lizards, spiders, blue ring octopus, bugs, etc.

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tex, the snake struck at me but hit the fence next to me, at heart high.
they don't always aim right,
if he hit me i wouldn;t be here.

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I think there’s actually three different distinctions here: 1. Toxicity(most venomous) 2. Deadliest(most kills) and 3. Most dangerous(if you were to encounter one at a disadvantage). Since the OP specified most dangerous, I will submit the Black Mamba. It is an extremely aggressive snake known to chase victims for quite some distance. If you were to encounter one in an agitated state, I don’t think you would stand much chance of getting away unbitten. The most venomous snakes, I believe, are the Inland and Coastal Taipans of Australia. But they are somewhat docile and prone to slither away when disturbed. The deadliest, by virtue of the fact that it consistently kills more people per year than any other is the Saw Scaled Viper. Not due to it’s toxicity, but due to it’s interaction with people with inadequate medical resources and it’s aggressive nature.

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The venomous snake that senses you first. Usually, all of them.

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The place is hardly visited, much less lived on.

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"He was kinda funny lookin'"

Wow....I can't imagine why???

Best Regards, Les

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The one you don't see

The black Egyptian cobra you forget to shake out of your boot before getting dressed in the morning.

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Some years ago, I saw World Health Organization figures stating that India alone has about 40,000 deaths annually from snakebite.

Primary offenders include the Indian Cobra, Russell's Viper/Tic Palonga, and the Blue Krait. I'm sure the Saw-Scaled Viper is in there, too. And they have the King Cobra/Hamadryad.

I doubt if other Asian or African countries keep good records. But I suspect the Puff Adder kills more in Africa than do mambas or cobras.

Such regions have many barefoot people or those wearing sandals. And medical aid for many is unavailable. Indians walking around at night without adequate lighting and in bare feet are especially likely to be bitten.

On land it would be the Krait. When Vietnamese are hit by one, they sit down and wait to die-not a long wait. The Army called them "one steppers" because that's as far as you got.

Inland Taipan

This Australian snake is a relative of the cobras and mambas. Drop for drop this snakes venom is the most toxic of any snake on the planet. Its venom is neurotoxic which paralyses the lungs and death occurs from respiratory failure. If bitten death could occur within 15 minutes. This snakes lives in the desert in the centre of Australia and very few deaths have been recorded, as there are almost no human settlements in its range.

Any snake if my wife is close by.

She’ll run over you trying to get away.

That was Peter Capstick’s conclusion as well.

Yes. I knew Peter slightly, and have some of his books that he autographed for me. He was as drolly witty in person as he was in print. He lived in South Africa, and his widow, Fiona, is South African. She has a book or two of her own.

But he came here for the SHOT show and for Dallas Safari Club meetings. I've kept one of his letters, in one of his books.
I hope my heirs treasure it and keep it in the family.

My daughter and her family are not much into guns and hunting stuff, but the son and his wife and her family make up for that.
The DIL shot a deer hanging in my living room. (No worries: It won't rot. The head has been to the taxidermist.)

I don't know much about snakes except I dont want one on me or near me .If I see one I shoot it dangerous or not I don't care .i don't do work for fools that keep snakes or other reptiles as pets .Met a great looking sweet girl a few years back when I was single and we hit it off .She invited me to her house and I went .Got there she had a big old lizard I mean 4 feet long ail and all hanging on a net above a great big aquarium . I thought it was a fake plastic or something u til it moved its head and I looked at her and said is that thing real . She smiles and said well of course and if you are nice ill let you hod him . I said sister you must be nuts and I got up an left quick fast and in a hurry singing " I don't like spiders and snakes and that ain't what it takes " .She was fine but I never regretted my decision as I would have had to explained eventually how her pet got a hold of my gun and committed suicide .

For pure terror & adrenaline effect...I would tend to say --- IMHO --- the water moccasin, since I almost stepped on two of them; while doing field survey work on a couple of dredge islands, located on the the Cape Fear River, North Carolina. One island was called "Eagle Island," but we nicknamed it "Evil Island."

The timber rattler is on the endangered species list...

And coyotes too

If this is true, we must be doing something right!!

Best Regards, Les

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The Minnesota DNR converted a Wildlife Management Area from being prime deer cover into a timber rattler sanctuary, apparently because we have a shortage of Timber Rattlers.

Posted references because you may not believe me.

https://www.leg.state.mn.us/docs/2015/other/155222.pdf

https://www.leg.state.mn.us/docs/201...8/2010_04f.pdf