Most Venomous Snakes

Venomous snakes are snakes which have venom glands and specialized teeth for the injection of venom. Members of the families Elapidae, Viperidae, Hydrophiidae, and Atractaspididae (and some from Colubridae as well) are major venomous snakes.
Lists or rankings of the world's "most venomous snakes" are tentative and differ greatly due to numerous factors, including the recentness and reliability of the data, the number of species analyzed, and the testing methods used. In addition, since mice are the common indicator used to test venom from venomous snakes in LD50 test, the LD50 results may not reflect the actual effects on humans due to the physiological differences between mice and humans. For example, many venomous snakes are specialized predators on mice, and their venom may be adapted specifically to incapacitate mice. While most mammals have a very similar physiology, LD50 results may or may not be directly relevant to humans.


1. Black Mamba

Black Mamba

The black mamba is a snake that lived in rural Africa, it spread in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. This snake can grows up to 4.3 meters long. Its name comes from the black color of the mouth and skin. Black Mamba can move with a speed of 4.5 to 5.4 meters per second.

2. King Cobra

King Cobra

King Cobra is the longest venomous snake in the world, He is living in South Asia and Southeast Asia. He can body along the 5.6 meters. In India it became a snake snakes are protected and sacred to traditional ceremonies. He can attack humans when threatened. These snakes eat mice and small birds.

3. Inland Taipan

Inland Taipan

Inland Taipan living in outback Australia. He lives in arid and barren desert. Snakes are capable of living area dry water marks. These snakes including venomous snakes and a very shy and introverted. This snake-eating small mammals including mice.

4. Taipan

Taipan

Taipan is a snake that lived in the desert region of Australia. These animals eat small mammals and extremely deadly poison. Poison including the most dangerous toxins. Snakes can be found by Aboriginal people of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia.

5. Tiger Snake

Tiger Snake

Tiger Snake snake that lived in Australia. The color is yellow and orange-brown, but sometimes also met with a very dark color. This snake can adapt to low temperatures, but actively seek prey in the desert at night is warm temperate. When threatened they would lift his head and prepared to attack.

6. Australian Brown Snake

Australian Brown Snake

Australian Brown Snake Pseudonaja has another name, this snake has a very deadly poison. Able to make people unconscious in a few minutes. He enrolled in a family of brown snake, which is one of the most dangerous snakes in the world. Even young snakes are also able to paralyze humans with ease.

7. Anaconda

Anaconda

Anaconda is the largest snake that lived on earth, he attacked its prey and then wrapped her body until the prey was killed. These giant snakes live in tropical regions of South America such as Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Venezuela. Snakes are often found in rivers and likes to prey on animals that live in water. Snake is alive and thriving in the tropical rain forest in the Amazon river.

8. Spitting Cobra

Spitting Cobra

Spitting Cobra Cobra is a very famous, in attacking its prey he issued a saliva that contains toxins. This is done to defend themselves from predators attack. The poison out and spray through the hole faces forward to paralyze opponents with ease.

9. Puff Adder

Puff Adder

The Puff Adder is Africa’s most dangerous snakes. He has big fangs and a very potent poison. Rocky habitat in the prairie. Adder including snakes are active at night that eats small mammals and lizards. Weighing can reach six pounds and has a special characteristic dark color around the eyes.

10. Common Death Adder

Common Death Adder

Common Death Adder is one of the most venomous snake in the world, he is greatly feared snake in Australia. He is commonly found in forests, grasslands and the eastern coast of Australia. Snakes are good at camouflage, because the color of the body together with bushes and dry grass.

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Top Animal Gluttons

The average American eats over 1,700 pounds of food every year, but that's no match for the eaters of the animal kingdom. While humans may know when to say when, some creatures have no clue about the concept of moderation. Some critters like to create their own personal buffet with nature's leftovers, or while others think the ultimate recipe for a home-cooked meal includes regurgitation (to put it politely). Gluttony may be one of the seven deadly sins, but for the top gluttons of the animal world, it's just a way of life.

10. TIGER SHARK
With a nickname like "Garbage Can of the Sea" it's no wonder that the tiger shark will eat just about anything in their path. What may be trash to humans is treasure as far as this shark is concerned — license plates, shoes, and parts of a suit of armor are just some of the things that have been found in their stomachs. Come to think of it, these sharks could probably do a lot to help keep our oceans clean. However, sometimes they bite off more than they can chew, forcing their binge to become a purge. By far, though, their most nasty eating habit starts before they're even born — tiger-sharks-to-be have actually been filmed turning on each other as a tasty treat. Now that's just gross.

 9. PIG
This one is sort of a no brainer for the gluttons list, but actually despite their reputation, some of these porkers can be very picky eaters, thanks in part to a surprisingly small stomach. One thing that's certainly piggish about this animal, though, is its tendency to sleep in its own excretion interesting choice for a full body mask!

 8. VULTURE
The vulture is the ultimate carnivore. This poster child for the Atkins diet dines on meat, just meat, and only meat, though they'll take their servings any which way — rare, medium or rotting. Vultures often have to dine and dash, so they tend to swoop in and eat as much as they can, and as quickly as possible, sometimes taking in up to 20 percent of their own body weight in one sitting. If rotten carcass happens to be on today's menu, no worries — vultures are equipped with a digestive system that contains special acids that will dissolve anything — even anthrax!

7. TASMANIAN DEVIL
Good thing the Tasmanian devil can't compete in the annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest every Fourth of July — Joey Chesnut and Kobayashi couldn't hold a candle to this creature's pace. The Australian outback native can swallow up to 40 percent of its body weight in just 30 minutes; that's the equivalent of a human eating 216 hamburgers in the same amount of time! The Tasmanian devil will actually eat to the point that it can barely waddle around, and is particularly fond of anything that smells like flesh. So if you've got some old boots or smelly socks, pass them to your left, along with the salt and pepper.

 6. VAMPIRE BAT
This tiny bat is only the size of an adult thumb, but its razor-sharp teeth can open a vein to lap up blood with its tongue, up to five teaspoons in one sitting! Fortunately, its preferred prey is the cow. Unfortunately for the cow, vampire bats start urinating almost as soon as they start eating. What's even more disgusting is when vampire bats use each other as a food supply resource. Because these little critters need to eat every day or they'll die, a hungry bat without other options will flick the cheek of a well-fed bat, which then vomits. The hungry bat then gladly ingests these sloppy seconds. Desperate times call for desperate measures!

 5. PYTHON
Thanks to its set of independent jaws, a python can swallow food that's larger than its own head, so there are few limits when it comes to what it can eat. With their slow digestive system, pythons can also go for long periods of times between meals — we're talking days or even months. And just because this creature doesn't have the luxury of using legs, arms or even feet doesn't mean it can't stuff its face. Pythons will take on an antelope that weighs as much as a human! Wait ... does that mean they'll take on a human as well? Let's not find out.

4. ARGENTINEAN WIDE=MOUTHED FROG
Also sometimes known as the horned frog, the Argentinean wide-mouthed frog is fearless when it comes to food. These amphibians can eat almost anything they want, and while a typical diet usually includes rodents, small lizards and snakes, and insects, they'll often attempt to super-size their meal and take on prey as large as themselves. This frog also doesn't know when to say when, sometimes eating to the point of ripping its stomach open — sort of gives new meaning to the phrase, "I'm stuffed."

 3. HUMMINGBIRD
The hummingbird has a perpetual case of the munchies — it needs to eat every 10 minutes, thanks to an incredible metabolism that's more of a curse than a blessing. With wings that flap 200 times a minute and a heart that beats 1,200 times within the same 60 seconds, a hummingbird will burn up to 14,000 calories in the time it would take most people to run a marathon. Guess this is one animal that doesn't need to go for a walk to burn off that second piece of birthday cake.

 2. BLUE WHALE
Weighing 200 tons and measuring 100 feet long, the blue whale is not only the largest animal on the planet, but possibly the largest animal to have ever lived. You'd think a body that big would want to take on some pretty hefty prey, but the blue whale feeds almost exclusively on krill (a type of shrimp-like marine invertebrate less than an inch long for those of you not in the Krill of the Month Club). Of course, we're not talking just one krill here and there — more like up to 40 million in one day. It's sort of like their version of potato chips or popcorn. The only time blue whales take a break is during their eight-month breeding season, when they often withhold from eating.

1.CATERPILLAR
It may be the smallest member on the list, but the caterpillar still earns the title of top glutton, thanks to its reputation for being an "eating machine." Though strictly vegetarians — er, herbivores — caterpillars eat leaves voraciously, often consuming 1,000 times their weight in only two months. Their alarmingly strong appetite is based more on biology than portion control issues; their bodies are basically bags of blood with a huge gut that runs down the middle. The constant flow of food through their system helps them get through their first life cycle as quickly as possible so they can be reincarnated as butterflies. Maybe if constant eating meant beautiful makeovers for us as well, versus life-threatening obesity, we'd be embracing this meal plan with open arms!





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Right Cause to go NAKED!

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is an American animal rights organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk, its international president. A non-profit corporation with 300 employees and two million members and supporters, it says it is the largest animal rights group in the world. Its slogan is "animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment."

Founded in March 1980 by Newkirk and animal rights activist Alex Pacheco, the organization first caught the public's attention in the summer of 1981 during what became known as the Silver Spring monkeys case, a widely publicized dispute about experiments conducted on 17 macaque monkeys inside the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. The case lasted ten years, involved the only police raid on an animal laboratory in the United States, triggered an amendment in 1985 to that country's Animal Welfare Act, and established PETA as an internationally known organization. Since then, in its campaigns and undercover investigations, it has focused on four core issues—opposition to factory farming, fur farming, animal testing, and animals in entertainment—though it also campaigns against fishing, the killing of animals regarded as pests, the keeping of chained backyard dogs, cock fighting, dog fighting, and bullfighting.

Founders	Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco
Type	501(c)(3)
Founded	March 1980
Location	Norfolk, Virginia
Focus	Animal rights
Revenue	$34 million in 2009
Employees	300
Members	2,000,000
Motto	"Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment."
Website	peta.org

The organization is known for its aggressive media campaigns, combined with a solid base of celebrity support—Pamela Anderson, Drew Barrymore, Alec Baldwin, John Gielgud, Bill Maher, Stella McCartney, and Alicia Silverstone have all appeared in PETA ads. Every week, Newkirk holds what The New Yorker calls a war council, with two dozen of her top strategists gathered round a square table in the PETA conference room, no suggestion considered too outrageous. PETA also gives a yearly prize, called the Proggy Award (for "progress"), to individuals or organizations dedicated to animal welfare or who distinguish themselves through their efforts within the area of animal welfare.

Many of the campaigns have focused on large corporations. Fast food companies such as KFC, Wendy's, and Burger King have been targeted. In the animal-testing industry, PETA's consumer boycotts have focused on Avon, Benetton, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Chesebrough-Pond's, Dow Chemical, General Motors, and others. Theirmodus operandi includes buying shares in target companies such as McDonald's and Kraft Foods in order to exert influence. The campaigns have delivered results for PETA. McDonald's and Wendy's introduced vegetarian options after PETA targeted them; Petco stopped selling some exotic pets; and Polo Ralph Lauren said it would no longer use fur. Avon, Estee Lauder, Benetton, and Tonka Toy Co. all stopped testing products on animals, the Pentagon stopped shooting pigs and goats in wounds tests, and a slaughterhouse in Texas was closed down.

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