Africa's most dangerous snake with the sign of death

This is a poisonous snake of the cobra family with extremely beautiful colors but very dangerous.

Bitis is a venomous snake genus in Africa and southern Arabian Peninsula, including an extremely scary snake in Africa, the most deadly cause of other snakes: Snake Bitis nasicornis.

Snake "death" in Africa

The Bitis nasicornis serpent also has other names such as rhino horn viper (Rhinoceros viper) or river jack which is a very beautiful snake with vivid colors but also extremely poisonous, they often bulge and collapse their bodies while being inflated with sound. big bar when threatened.

Rhino horn snake with "death" sign on his head.(Photo: Imgur) .

It is also known as rhino horn because it possesses horns (deformed scales) in front of the nose that look like rhino horns, they often live in rain forests or swamps in the West and Central Africa and is the fear of the people here.

If you look closely at their head, you will also see triangular black patterns that look like "death" (see picture above), which makes this viper snake more frightening.

This snake has a length of up to 70 to 90cm, some even up to 1.3m, like other viper snakes, this snake has triangular, rectangular or diamond patterns. run all over the body.

Their appearance also looks quite similar to the "brother" is the Gaboon viper, but their colors are more colorful and beautiful with striking colors like red, yellow, green, blue and black. .

Bitis snake Viper is extremely poisonous.(Source: Youtube / Jonas Arvidsson).

Snake Bitis nasicornis is a nocturnal and mainly active snake, but they can also be found in high water or tree environments, although moving slowly, they attack prey very quickly. and lightning.

This poisonous snake will inject deadly venom to be paralyzed prey, then devour the prey, they are extremely patient when ambushing the prey and when "hand out" it is very fast. Their main food is rodents, frogs, fish .

Beautiful and colorful pattern of viper snake.(Photo: Galileo Ramos).

Patterns and skin colors can help them disguise themselves by hiding under the leaf litter or forest floor that we find very difficult to detect. Their bodies are strong with lots of strong muscles, especially when bulging to threaten their enemies.

Their toxins can cause internal bleeding, tissue destruction and attack on the blood circulation system as well as the nervous system causing the victim to die very quickly.