Snakes - Table Mountain

[Meezo]

Based on your strava times you must be one too

Eish, I'm just indirectly trying to keep up with SSM crew!

[boristheblade]

this one was caught in Top road Fresnaye, going down the street.

about 3 weeks ago.

 

[DJR]

.................., racing snakes are quite common on table mountain

Those are the most dangerous kind on the single track, especially if you are too slow for their liking

[Tacet]

Also there is no difference in potency of venom - small or large.

 

As I understand it the venom is exactly the same for juvenile or adult, but a juvenile has less control over how much venom it injects, so it normally injects everything.

[Super Sywurm]

Not true - puffy strikes at incredible speed and in all directions - cobra tends to only strike forward - cobra will rear up before striking so flat cobra ok but please don't flatten.

Puffy can also move at high speed - he might like to laze about but not to be underestimated.

 

Also there is no difference in potency of venom - small or large.

 

All snakes prefer to retreat and will only really strike when cornered or caught unawares.

Ja, but will a puff adder reach a leg while riding on a bike at a speed more than 20km/h?

[Eddy Gordo]

I think a puff adder has the fastest strike of any snake

[Eddy Gordo]

ok I am mistaken that would be the death adder 

 

Slow as they may seem, puff adders can strike extremely fast from an S-like coiled position- and at .25 of a second this is arguably the fastest striking snake in the world. The combination of camouflage and speed leads to many bites although only a small percentage are ever fatal.

 

http://www.capesnakeconservation.com/western-cape-snakes/venomous/puff-adder/

[Raydek]

From: http://www.arachnoboards.com/

 

I shot this video to show once again how fast Death Adders(Acanthophis) strike. They are the fastest striking snake (A death adder can go from a strike position, to strike and envenoming their prey, and back to strike position again, in less than 0.15 of a second) and the strike is very hard to catch even in 10x slow motion. Amazing creatures really, surely must stay out of the strike range with these puppies.

[Hackster]

You have to be very unlucky to die from a snake bite.

 

Or very poor and living a long way from medical care.

 

Something to remember is that venomous snakes have the ability to 'dry bite' without injecting venom. They do this surprisingly often.

[Raydek]

You have to be very unlucky to die from a snake bite.

 

Or very poor and living a long way from medical care.

 

Something to remember is that venomous snakes have the ability to 'dry bite' without injecting venom. They do this surprisingly often.

 

Good guy snake! 

[Raydek]

http://assets.diylol.com/hfs/79a/a00/2b2/resized/snake-meme-generator-meanwhile-in-australia-4991be.jpg?1323976961.jpg

[dirtypot]

The problem now is that the guys who are poep scared of snakes probably won't want to read this thread and are definitely not going to now that there's videos of snakes on here   

[Musketeer]

ok I am mistaken that would be the death adder 

 

Slow as they may seem, puff adders can strike extremely fast from an S-like coiled position- and at .25 of a second this is arguably the fastest striking snake in the world. The combination of camouflage and speed leads to many bites although only a small percentage are ever fatal.

 

http://www.capesnakeconservation.com/western-cape-snakes/venomous/puff-adder/

 

That is still quick enough for me to not bugger around with said reptile....

[KarlvN]

so then we might need to remind some people of the Cape Cobra at Hoogekraal, the Boomslang at Meerendal, Puffadder and Mamba at Oak Valley / Paul Cluver...lots of snakes there folks, you might want to stay home during summer..

[Meezo]

so then we might need to remind some people of the Cape Cobra at Hoogekraal, the Boomslang at Meerendal, Puffadder and Mamba at Oak Valley / Paul Cluver...lots of snakes there folks, you might want to stay home during summer..

 

 

or worse, deform into a roadie!

[Hairy]

so then we might need to remind some people of the Cape Cobra at Hoogekraal, the Boomslang at Meerendal, Puffadder and Mamba at Oak Valley / Paul Cluver...lots of snakes there folks, you might want to stay home during summer..

why can't we do some more origional trail names in ct ........