Poison dart frogs live in the rainforests of Central and South America. Poison dart frogs live in the rainforests of Central and South America.

Poison Dart Frogs (Dendrobatidae) are endemic to Central and South America. They need a humid, tropical rainforest environment to survive. Those same frogs aren’t so dangerous in captivity – provided their diet consists of non-alkaloid containing insects. This is how we’re able to safely keep them as pets.

The poison dart frog lives in the rainforest so they have to adapt to humid rainy weather. They have to adapt to darkness (they live in the understory.) The poison dart frog has webbed feet, smooth, rubbery skin, strong back legs, eyes on the side of there head, bright colors, vocal cords that puff out.

Poison frogs are often called poison dart frogs because the Choco people of western Colombia use the poison of one species, the golden poison frog, to coat the tips of the blow darts they use for hunting. The Choco use waxy leaves to pick up the frogs and dip their blow darts in the frogs’ skin secretions.

They are only dangerous if they bite you, injecting their venom into your bloodstream. The golden poison frog has no such limitations. It keeps its poison in glands beneath its skin, so any reckless human taking a bite would be in trouble immediately.

Poison Dart frogs are known around the world for being one of the most deadly animals on earth. The toxin from some Golden Poison-Dart frogs is enough to kill two full-grown, bull elephants (supposedly).

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Inland Taipan Snake

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There have been no reported fatalities from an inland taipan, however a spokesman for Sydney’s Taronga Zoo, Mark Williams, told Fairfax that a drop of its venom was enough to kill 100 adults or 25,000 mice.

I’m the only person to have survived Taipan bite without the serum (antivenom). The doctor said my youth and fitness helped me survive. The serum wasn’t around when I was bitten. A year after I was bitten, a European bloke, Donald Duck from Cooktown, chased a Taipan and was bitten up at McIvor.

Inland taipans can grow up to 2.5 metres in length and have 12-millimetre fangs. Because it typically lives in sparsely populated areas and is shy by nature few humans have ever been bitten by an inland taipan, and there have been no recorded deaths.

A Ballarat man has survived a bite from the world’s most venomous snake. Not many know of or have been bitten by Australia’s native inland taipan, but Ricky Harvey is one of the lucky few to successfully fight off the venom that is potent enough to kill 100 humans with just one drop.

Among land snakes, that honor appears to belong to the inland taipan of Australia. But what the king cobra lacks in potency, it makes up for in volume. Its half-inch fangs deliver a huge dose, up to seven milliliters of venom, or about one-quarter of a whiskey shot glass.

The maximum yield recorded from a single bite of Inland Taipan is 110 mg and the venom is so toxic that just one bite is enough to kill at least 100 human adults or 250 thousand mice. Depending on several factors a bite if left untreated as the potential to kill someone in as little as 30 to 45 minutes.

Its bite delivers a tremendous amount of paralysis-inducing neurotoxins. The snake’s venom is so strong and so voluminous that it can kill an elephant in just a few hours. Death also results in at least 50 to 60 percent of untreated human cases.

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Most deaths occur between 6 and 48 hours after the bite. If antivenom treatment is given within two hours of the bite, the probability of recovery is greater than 99%. When a bite occurs, the amount of venom injected is under voluntary control by the snake.

The chances of dying from a venomous snakebite in the United States is nearly zero, because we have available, high-quality medical care in the U.S. Fewer than one in 37,500 people are bitten by venomous snakes in the U.S. each year (7-8,000 bites per year), and only one in 50 million people will die from snakebite (5- …

Snakebites kill more than 200 people a day around the world, but Thai firefighter Pinyo Pookpinyo was one of the lucky ones.

For the most part a snake will survive. Snakes don’t actually tend to have very long tails, which are measured from after the cloaca. That is a teeny, tiny fraction of the overall snake, and a snake’s blood will easily clot if its tail is severed.

Dogs kill 25,000 people yearly. These deaths are not because of vicious maulings by household pets, however. Feral and stray dogs infected with rabies attack people and spread the disease.

Typically, between 30 and 50 people in the US die from dog bites each year, and the number of deaths from dog attacks appear to be increasing. Around 4.5 million Americans are bitten by dogs every year, resulting in the hospitalization of 6,000 to 13,000 people each year in the United States (2005).

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