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You will receive an email when new content is published. Click Here to Manage Email Alerts. We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice slackinc. Back to Healio. Amar Agarwal. Although they have fangs in the rear of their mouth for subduing prey, the venom is too weak to harm humans. We'd seen a few of the sand snakes crossing the roads. But they are as fast as lightning, meaning one has zero chance of chasing them down unless they are cornered.
Aristote—and I had set up our laboratory in the relatively arid region north of Lake Tanganyika, in search of just such rare snakes. Our expedition, it seemed, was off to a promising start. Curious to see what species this snake might be, I confidently walked up to the basket, looked inside—and felt my heart skip a beat. Instead of seeing a Psammophis —a striped snake with a pointy snout—I saw a dull brown snake with a distinct round head raised a few inches off the ground. These physical traits all pointed to one group of dangerous serpents: cobras.
In French I told my colleagues and bystanders to be careful, and mimicked the motion of spitting. I feared this could be a black-necked spitting cobra, which has the ability to spray venom into the eyes of its enemies, blinding them. The serpent in front of us belonged to an ancient lineage of highly venomous snakes. Unlike vipers, these snakes—which range in size from about 2 feet to the foot-long king cobra of Asia—have long, muscular bodies that propel them rapidly and a lethally erect fang on their upper jaws.
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