The Black Mamba

This is rated as one of the  most deadliest  snake in the planet.

Located 

           Black mambas live in the savannas and rocky hills of the

southern and  eastern Africa. They are the longest venous snake you can find in Africa.

Why is it deadliest ?

•  Territorial : 10/10 Highly territorial as it defends it territory for other species.
•  Speed : 10/10 Fastest snake in the world with the speed of 11-19 km/h.
•  Length : 10/10 Average 8 ft Its the longest venous snake in Africa and the longest ever found is 15 ft.
• Toxic :10/10 Takes only 20 min for the victim to die
• Aggression : 10/10 Only snake on the earth that doesn't warn before it strikes.Can strike around 360 degrees and dry bite does not exist.
• Style : 10/10 :The  inner inky black layer of its mouth gives it a deadly look. It strikes repeatedly one bite after another and every bite delivering venom in a huge quantities.
• Fang size : 10/10 22 mm in comparing to King cobra whose  fang size is 8 mm
• Deadly feature : Fangs are positioned forwardly compared to other snakes thus mamba's venom delivery apparatus is more efficient that other venomous snakes. 

The tales of the black mamba

      

       Night with a nine : In South Africa , in a tribal village, screams were heard from a hut, one person entered the hut but dint return , suspicious another entered but dint return , this happened till nine people and they never came out.No one dared to enter next.The next morning all the villagers gathered courage and with weapons entered the hut and saw nine dead bodies in the hut with a mamba in the corner.All the nine showed the symptoms of the mamba bite .That night the black mamba decided to stay in hut and every time a person entered it felt its being cornered and struck at each repeatedly .

      A Giant bite : No where in earth it has been reported that an elephant is dead because of a snake bite . Such a huge creature , no snakes dares to challenge an elephant . Any snake that saw such huge creature runs from it surely. But in Africa once a very huge elephant was reported dead by a snake bite for the first time.The symptoms are of a black mamba bite . To date, this is the only scientifically documented case of an elephant killed via snakebite 

  

     Seven dogs at once : In a different case in which a black mamba was attacked by seven dogs , the snake managed to swiftly move and dispatch all seven dogs without incurring any injuries aside from a few minor and superficial bite wounds on its tail. All seven does rapidly succumbed to the mamba's venom , tow of the does were dead within the first 10-15 min , while the others died one at a time in less than an hour

Click here for the link which stated all the three above cases.

   Most large predators and herbivores ,including lions, wildebeests and cape buffalo will steer clear of black mambas. A herd of buffalo who happen to spot a mamba anywhere within the herds vicinity will usually back away and move in the direction opposite to the mamba. 

     This is how this snake clams  to be the most deadest snake on earth.

Thanks to Sharath for helping me with the post.

     

         

Usain Bolt :He was never supposed to run in 100m.

Originally, he participated only in 200m(his favorite) and 400m events. The basic logic behind this was that his coaches(and Bolt too) believed that he was just too tall.

Bolt was training very hard for the 2008 Beijing Olympics since he had a poor show at 2004 Athens. So his coach, Glen Mills, asked him to train for another distance to gain additional benefits for his main 200m event. His coach advised him to run 400m in Beijing. Bolt hated 400m event as this meant running 500,600,800m laps for training. He, instead, wanted to try 100m as he preferred speed over endurance. But his coach was reluctant due to the above cited reasons and Bolt asked him that, ifhe were able to run 100m in 10.30 or less then he will run in 100m instead of 400m at Beijing. His coach added another condition that first, Bolt had to break then 36 year old, 200m in 19.86s, National record of Don Quarrie.

   Following this, Bolt broke that record by running 200m in 19.75s at Jamaican Championships. After a month, in July, Bolt ran his first ever official 100m race( after 6-7 years of competitive running in 200/400m) in Rethymno,Crete and hit a time of 10.03s, easily clearing the 10.30 target he set for himself in order to avoid the 400m event.

   Now, the most mind blowing fact here is that all this was happening in 2007.Only one year before 2008 Olympics! We all know what followed...