Off the coast of Brazil sits Ilha de Queimada Grande ,
or as it’s known in colloquial English, Snake
Island. Comprising roughly 110 acres of trees, the island is
uninhabited and travel to it is expressly forbidden by the
Brazilian navy. Why? Because Queimada Grande is home
to hundreds of thousands of golden lanceheads, the snake
pictured above.
Unique to Queimada Grande, the golden lancehead
typically grows to be about two feet long but at times can
grow to nearly double that length. And its venom is
poisonous. Very, very poisonous.
Generally, lanceheads are responsible for 90% of snake bite-
related fatalities in Brazil. The mortality rate from a lancehead
bite is 7% if the wound goes untreated — and as high as
3% even if treatment is given. The venom causes a grab bag
of symptoms which includes kidney failure, necrosis of muscular
tissue, brain hemorrhaging, and intestinal bleeding. Scary stuff,
to be sure.
For Snake Island, the picture is even scarier. The data above
does not include bites from the golden lancehead, as there are
no official records of a golden lancehead-caused fatality due to
the de facto quarantine on the Brazilian island. A chemical
analysis of golden lancehead venom suggests that the snake is
much more dangerous than its continental cousins: golden
lancehead viper venom is faster acting and more powerful —
perhaps five times more powerful.
Two foot-long snakes with such powerful venom, combined,
means that getting close to one carries with it a high risk of
death. And getting close to one is all but certain on Snake
Island. Even the most conservative estimate suggests that the
golden lancehead population density on Queimada Grande
is one per square meter; others suggest a population as high
as five per square meter. Regardless, as one site points out,
even at the lower estimate, “you’re never more than three feet
away from death.”
"Between one and five snakes per
square meter" might not be so terrible
if the snakes were, say, two inches long
and nonvenomous. The snakes on
Queimada Grande, however, are a
unique species of pit viper, the golden
lancehead. The lancehead genus of
snakes is responsible for 90 percent of
Brazilian snakebite-related fatalities.
The golden lanceheads that occupy
Snake Island grow to well over half a
meter long, and they possess a
powerful fast-acting poison that melts
the flesh around their bites.
Golden lanceheads are so dangerous
that, with the exception of some
scientific outfits, the Brazilian Navy
has expressly forbidden anyone from
landing on the island.
Locals in the coastal towns near
Queimada Grande love to recount two
grisly tales of death on Snake Island. In
one, a fisherman unwittingly wanders
onto the island to pick bananas.
Naturally, he is bitten. He manages to
return to his boat, where he promptly
succumbs to the snake's venom. He is
found some time later on the boat deck
in a great pool of blood.
The other story is of the final
lighthouse operator and his family. One
night, a handful of snakes enter
through a window and attack the man,
his wife, and their three children. In a
desperate gambit to escape, they flee
towards their boat, but they are bitten
by snakes on branches overhead.

This is a front page material,make i park for here

Lala food for thought pls do the needfull

I hare snakes

It's OK if I don't see that island sha .. Let all the snakes stay in tat island and may will not swim to other nearby islands...

TrapQueen77:




It's OK if I don't see that island sha .. Let all the snakes stay in tat island and may will not swim to other nearby islands...

I have a snake as a pet. It's Name is ira. Hope to show it to u somethings.

Ftc

how much is a plot of land there??

just set the d.am.ned place ablaze....I hate those slimy creatures passionately